Gleb Kalinychev
Gleb Kalinychev, born 1983, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. Charges: Article 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Financing of extremist activities); “Gleb Kalinychev case on ACF financing”. Sentence (August 12, 2024): four years of suspended sentence. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as persecuted on political grounds, December 17, 2024.
In brief
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast · Nizhny Novgorod · Extremism cases, Cases against Navalny/ACF supporters
Sentence
4 years
four years of suspended sentence
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Financing of extremist activities
Latest event
December 17, 2024 — recognised as persecuted on political grounds
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as persecuted on political grounds — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, December 17, 2024
Timeline
· Recognised as persecuted on political grounds
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Imprisonment begins
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 4 years
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
· Persecution begins
Gleb Kalinychev case on ACF financing
Criminal case
Gleb Kalinychev case on ACF financing
Thematic group: Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) financing cases
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of Nizhny Novgorod. In October 2022, he and his brother Dmitry were detained in a case of repeated discrediting of the Armed Forces, in which local activist Ilya Myaskovsky is a defendant. On 6 September 2023, the brothers were searched in a case of financing extremist activities: Gleb was charged with financing the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which was unjustifiably recognised as an extremist organisation. The next day he was taken into custody. In December 2023, it became known that the investigator banned Kalinychev from visiting his mother. On 12 August 2024, he was sentenced to four years' suspended sentence.
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.