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Pavel Kambolin

At largeChecked October 18, 2026

Pavel Kambolin, Amur Oblast. Charges: Article 214 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Vandalism committed by a group of people, or motivated by hatred or animosity); “The case of vandalism in Blagoveshchensk”. Sentence (August 15, 2022): 10 months of restricted liberty. Status: at large.

In brief

Amur Oblast · Blagoveshchensk · Students · Anti-war cases

Sentence

10 months of restricted liberty

Verdict August 15, 2022

No information about an appeal ruling.

Charges

Full wording of the charges

According to the investigation, over the course of several days, he painted in black “images of prohibited symbols and inscriptions discrediting the actions of the Russian Armed Forces” on the buildings of the cinema center and the Amur Regional House of Folk Art, as well as on a fence, the wall of an underground parking lot at a shopping center, and a commemorative stele dedicated to the Day of the Adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Federation.

Latest event

June 1, 2023 — persecution ends

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Timeline

  1. · Persecution ends

  2. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict

  3. · Persecution begins

    The case of vandalism in Blagoveshchensk

Criminal case

The case of vandalism in Blagoveshchensk

There are no other defendants in this case in the database.

Thematic group: Anti-war case

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

A resident of Blagoveshchensk. Several cases of vandalism were brought against him because he left "images of prohibited symbols and inscriptions discrediting the actions of the Russian Armed Forces" on buildings. He was also charged with several administrative cases and arrested for 28 days and fined 300,000 rubles. The Interior Ministry circulated a video in which a man with a blurred face says that he applied the inscriptions and regrets having applied the banned symbols. On 16 August 2022, Kambolin was sentenced to 10 months of restricted freedom.

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