Mikhail Ivanov
Mikhail Ivanov, born 1998, Moscow. Charges: Article 115 part 2 item b, Russian Criminal Code (Intentional infliction of minor harm to health, causing a short-term health disorder out of…); Article 115 part 2 items a, v, Russian Criminal Code (Intentional Infliction of Minor Harm to Health out of hooligan motives with the use of weapons or…); Article 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Hooliganism (group, with weapons, or against a government official)); “The case of anti-fascists Yakimenko and Ivanov”. Sentenced on September 15, 2021. Status: at large.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow
Sentence
Imprisonment (details unknown)
Upheld December 8, 2025
Charges
- Article 115 part 2 item b, Russian Criminal Code — Intentional infliction of minor harm to health, causing a short-term health disorder out of political, ideological, racial, national, or religious hatred or enmity, or hatred or enmity towards any social group.
- Article 115 part 2 items a, v, Russian Criminal Code — Intentional Infliction of Minor Harm to Health out of hooligan motives with the use of weapons or items used as weapons.
- Article 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Hooliganism (group, with weapons, or against a government official)
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation he is accused of committing hooliganism, i.e. gross violation of public order, expressing clear disrespect for society, with the use of weapons and objects used as weapons, on the grounds of ideological hatred, by a group of persons by prior conspiracy and in the commission of intentional infliction of minor harm to health, out of hooligan motives on the grounds of ideological hatred, with the use of objects used as weapons.
Latest event
December 8, 2025 — appeal
The court upheld the verdict.
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Persecution ends
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
The case of anti-fascists Yakimenko and Ivanov
Criminal case
The case of anti-fascists Yakimenko and Ivanov
- Case number
- 01-0076/2023
Other defendants in the case
- Bogdan Yakimenko (Max Vertzinsky) — Imprisoned
Details and sources
Full summary
Known among anti-fascists as "Sicil". Detained after a fight with a group of neo-Nazis on 5.01.2020 in Moscow together with another defendant Yakimenko Bogdan. On 6.01.2020, officers of the Centre "E" and the FSB, including Alexey Okopny, came to the department, according to the detainees, they put pressure and threats, trying to induce them to cooperate. The criminal case was initiated under part 2 of article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and item "b" part 2 of article 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. One of the attacking neo-Nazis became a victim in the case. On 29.05.2023 Basmanny court sentenced him to 4.5 years of general regime, as he already had a suspended sentence. The sentence, which was passed by Basmanny court, became the second - the first sentence, under which the antifascists were sentenced to real terms of imprisonment, was cancelled by Moscow City Court and sent for a new consideration in April 2022. In the three years that the case has been pending, the antifascists were under house arrest for a year, then under a recognisance not to leave, and after the first verdict they spent eight months in a pre-trial detention centre.
According to the defence lawyer, Ivanov suffers from epilepsy.
On 26 September 2024, the appeal court overturned the verdict. A new sentence was handed down on 18 August 2025, details are unknown.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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