Gagik Grigoryan
Gagik Grigoryan, born 2006, Moscow. Charges: Article 205 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Preparation for a terrorist attack (by a group or with serious consequences)); Article 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in a terrorist community); Article 222.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code (Illegal acquisition, transfer, storage, transportation, shipment, or carrying of explosives or…); “The case of Gagik Grigoryan”. Sentence (January 28, 2025): 7 years' deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony, a fine of 40,000 roubles. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since January 13, 2026.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Terrorism cases
Sentence
7 years
deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony, a fine of 40,000 roubles
Upheld December 11, 2025
Charges
- Article 205 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Preparation for a terrorist attack (by a group or with serious consequences)
- Article 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in a terrorist community
- Article 222.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code — Illegal acquisition, transfer, storage, transportation, shipment, or carrying of explosives or explosive devices committed by an organized group of people
- Article 226.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Illegal movement across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union or the State border of the Russian Federation with the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union of strategically important goods and resources, cultural values, especially valuable wild animals, aquatic biological resources, plants and mushrooms, committed by an organized group
- Article 275, Russian Criminal Code — Treason against the state
Latest event
December 11, 2025 — cassation
The court upheld the verdict.
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 7 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
The case of Gagik Grigoryan
Criminal case
The case of Gagik Grigoryan
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Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
172011, ул. Старицкая д. 96, Тверская область, г. Торжок, больница УФСИН Тверской области, Григорян Гагик Гегамович, 2006 г.р.
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An activist of Left Socialist Action and the Russian Social Democratic Youth Union (RSSYU) from Kursk. In October 2023, the police came to his house, after which he disappeared. According to the "Word of Defence" project, Grigoryan was stuffed into the trunk of a car, then, after taking him out, they placed an explosive device in his legs and started beating him, demanding obedience. After that, they forced him to take a taxi to a certain place and there to take the explosives out of the hole in the ground. This process was filmed by unknown people. Grigoryan was then detained again, pretending to have been caught red-handed. He was sent to custody in Moscow on charges of terrorist act and possession of explosives: according to the investigation, he was involved in the preparation of the murder of Russian Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Gal. Later, charges of high treason, smuggling of explosives and participation in the activities of a terrorist community were added.
The "Word of Defence" project notes that, according to open data, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Gal died ten days before the case against Grigoryan for preparing an assassination attempt on him was opened.
On 28 January 2025 Grigoryan was sentenced to seven years in a general regime colony.
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