Ruslan Karabalin
- Criminal Code
- Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Anti-war casesTerrorism cases
- Verdict
- Ban on activity, Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 6 years 6 months
- Date of verdict
- 2025-04-16
- Region
- Primorsky Krai
- City
- Vladivostok
- Facility
- ФКУ СИЗО-1 УФСИН России по Приморскому краю
- Address for letters
- 690106, Приморский край, г. Владивосток, Партизанский проспект, 28 «б», ФКУ СИЗО-1 УФСИН России по Приморскому краю, Карабалин Руслан Рамилевич, 1994 г.р.
Case summary
A resident of Vladivostok. A case was initiated against him for public incitement to terrorism due to his approval of the killing of the war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky and public incitement "for a change of the regime and state power in the Russian Federation by inciting civil war or carrying out a military coup." On April 17, 2025, Karabalin was sentenced to six and a half year's imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.
Others charged under Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
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