Roman Ivanishin
- Criminal Code
- Article 338, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 352.1, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 352.1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Anti-war cases
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (strict regime)
- Sentence
- 15 years
- Date of verdict
- 2025-04-15
- Region
- Sakhalin Oblast
- City
- Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, 8 July 2025
This is the assessment of the organisation named above, not ours. FACTUM reports it with attribution and does not make its own.
Case summary
Military servant who lived on Sakhalin and worked as a mining foreman. He was mobilized. After serving in Sakhalin, he was sent to Donetsk region—the Ukrainian region occupied by Russian troops. In June 2023, he was captured by the Ukrainian military. In January 2024, he was handed over to the Russian Federation as part of an exchange. After that, a case of voluntary surrender, preparation for voluntary surrender and desertion was brought against him. On September 16, 2024, the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Garrison Court redirected the case to the jurisdiction. However, in March 2025, the case was again brought before the same court. On April 15, 2025, this court sentenced Ivanishin to 15 years in a strict regime colony, reclassifying three of the four desertion episodes as AWOL.
Others charged under Article 338, Russian Criminal Code
What we write about political persecution
Recent material from this section. This is section navigation — the articles below are not about this person.
- 2026-09-04Georgia court clears extradition of Fugal ally to Russia
- 2026-09-04Russia labels Novaya Gazeta a 'foreign agent,' adds over 100 affiliated names
- 2026-09-04Russian court sentences hostage-takers from Rostov detention center to up to 29 years
- 2026-09-04Two Yabloko Duma candidates detained in Moscow two days before vote
- 2026-09-03British man says Russian police beat him, jumped on his head at station in Yessentuki
Source: this person’s record in the OVD-Info political persecution database
Published under CC BY 3.0. The criteria for treating a person as politically persecuted belong to OVD-Info; FACTUM relays their assessment and makes none of its own.
OVD-Info has been designated an «extremist» organisation in Russia — by decision of the Russian authorities, like other independent human rights and media projects.