Roman Gribov

A resident of Kostroma, a manager for the sale of car oils. On 2 July 2025, he was detained. According to him, they wrapped his hands with duct tape, put a black bag on his head and forced him to unlock his phone. Then he was taken to the FSB department in the Kostroma region, where an officer fixed his hands, poured water on his feet, threw him on the floor, plugged a bare wire into a socket, after which Gribov was tortured with electric current for an hour and a half. He was then taken for a search, then returned to the FSB, where he was beaten on the kidneys, after which, as he claims, he was given vodka and taken to the police station. At the police station, a policeman in the presence of witnesses suggested that he undergo an examination. Gribov agreed. But then, according to Gribov, the FSB officer demanded him to refuse the examination, and he refused. On 3 July, he was arrested for 13 days under the administrative article on refusal of medical examination (Article 6.9 of the Code of Administrative Offences).

On 15 July 2025, a case was brought against him for calls to extremism and terrorism. The reason was comments about a nuclear explosion in Moscow (in response to political scientist Dmitry Suslov's arguments about the need for a demonstration nuclear explosion on the territory of Russia) and the execution of prisoners recruited for war.

Gribov's brother said that on 30 December 2025, Roman found himself in the same cell with an FSB officer who had previously tortured him. Cellmates threatened Gribov with new criminal cases and the fate of neo-Nazi Maksim Martsinkevich, who was found dead in the pre-trial detention centre, if he never confessed guilt. Gribov was kept in this cell until 12 January 2026. In February 2026, it became known that cellmates persuaded him to admit guilt. These cellmates were then moved away from him, but a new inmate was placed in his cell and began trying to engage Gribov in conversations about prison subculture, political views and treason cases. The conversations continued during the walk with prisoners from neighbouring cells.

On 1 April 2026, the court sentenced Gribov to six years in a general regime colony.