Taulan Kipkeev
Taulan Kipkeev, born 1994, Karachay-Cherkessia. Charges: Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code (Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government…); “The case of Taulan Kipkeev on spreading deliberately false information about the Russian Armed Forces”. Sentence (December 28, 2024): Guilty verdict, details unknown. Status: location unknown.
In brief
Karachay-Cherkessia, Moscow · Moscow, NULL · Athletes · Anti-war cases
Sentence
Guilty verdict, details unknown
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code — Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government agencies, or mercenaries (based on political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred or enmity, or on grounds of hatred or enmity in relation to any social group)
Full wording of the charges
The reason for the case was a video published in Instagram, which he filmed while walking on Red Square in Moscow. In the video, the young man points at the Kremlin and says: "Right behind this wall, under this flag, sit the very murderers who are the reason for the war in Ukraine. All these people are going out, having holidays, and some others are homeless, some have been killed, some have had their children and parents killed." He adds that Putin and his associates "are waiting for a fair trial. Because they will all be punished.”
Latest event
March 31, 2025 — added to the rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
Timeline
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Persecution begins
The case of Taulan Kipkeev on spreading deliberately false information about the Russian Armed Forces
Criminal case
The case of Taulan Kipkeev on spreading deliberately false information about the Russian Armed Forces
- Case number
- 1-170/2024
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Details and sources
Full summary
A resident of Karachay-Cherkessia, a mountaineering and mountain skiing instructor who organises treks in the Caucasus mountains. In September 2021, an instructor with this name participated as a guide in the tragic ascent of Elbrus, which killed five people. Through his actions Kipkeev was able to save some of the people in the group, but he himself was seriously injured. In March 2023, he was sentenced in a case of making or distributing pornography on the Internet, details are unknown.
In April 2024, it became known that a criminal case was opened against Kipkeev for spreading fake information about the Russian Armed Forces. On 28 December 2024, a verdict was handed down, details unknown.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.