Vasily Gorelikov
Vasily Gorelikov, born 2005, Primorsky Krai. Charges: Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public calls for extremism (using mass media or the internet)); “Vasily Gorelikov's case on calls to extremism”. Sentence (November 6, 2024): 1 year of suspended prison sentence on probation for 1 year and 6 months, and prohibition to administer Internet sites… Status: at large.
In brief
Primorsky Krai · Vladivostok · Extremism cases
Sentence
1 year
of suspended prison sentence on probation for 1 year and 6 months, and prohibition to administer Internet sites for 1 year and 6 months
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Public calls for extremism (using mass media or the internet)
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, he "encouraged subscribers to humiliate and rape supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin".
Latest event
July 9, 2026 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Imprisonment ends
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 1 year
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: ban on certain activities
· Persecution begins
Vasily Gorelikov's case on calls to extremism
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
Criminal case
Vasily Gorelikov's case on calls to extremism
Details and sources
Full summary
A resident of Nakhodka, a volunteer of Boris Nadezhdin's headquarters. On 5 June 2024 a search was conducted at his house. They took away letters to political prisoners, which he had at home. After the end of the investigative actions, the young man was taken away in an unknown direction. Later it became known that Gorelikov was in Vladivostok in the building of the FSB, his lawyer was not allowed to see him. Then there was information that a case of calls to extremism was brought against him, he was elected a measure of restriction in the form of prohibition of certain actions. The reason for the case was a comment with the words "**ath to PUTINISTS". On 6 November 2024, Gorelikov was sentenced to a year of suspended sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.