Nikolai Konashenok
Nikolai Konashenok, born 1982, Saint Petersburg. Charges: Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)); “Nikolai Konoshenok's case on public justification of terrorism”. Sentence (June 11, 2025): Fine of 600 thousand roubles with a restriction on administrating Internet pages for two years. Status: at large.
In brief
Saint Petersburg · Saint Petersburg · Artists · Terrorism cases
Sentence
Fine of 600 thousand roubles with a restriction on administrating Internet pages for two years
Upheld October 3, 2025
Charges
- Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)
Full wording of the charges
The reason for the criminal case were Konashenok's Facebook posts about the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall on 22 March 2024. "Why Crocus and not the Kremlin? Did they mixed it up?" - one post read. In another, Konashenok wrote that a terrorist attack at a concert by the band Picnic was "petty" as opposed to a prefabricated concert dedicated to the film Brother 2.
Latest event
October 3, 2025 — appeal
The court upheld the verdict.
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
Nikolai Konoshenok's case on public justification of terrorism
Criminal case
Nikolai Konoshenok's case on public justification of terrorism
Details and sources
Full summary
A resident of St. Petersburg, an artist, restorer, and former journalist. On 25 March 2024, he was detained at Pulkovo airport when he was trying to leave for Yerevan. Konashenk was arrested for 14 days under the article on petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences). The reason for the prosecution was his posts about the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall on 22 March. Police circulated a video of Konashenk apologising. "I do not support terrorism. A heinous crime has been committed, because of which we all grieve," he said in the video. The next day it became known that a criminal case was opened against Konashenk for publicly justifying terrorism. On 27 March, he was taken into custody.
In the evening of 25 March Konashenk's wife Roksana Shatunovskaya told about his dismissal from the post of General Director of the project "New Holland", which she held for 13 years. "By mutual consent of me and my management, we have come to the decision that I can no longer hold my position and fulfill my duties due to the fact that a member of my family has allowed himself monstrous, incompatible with humanity statements," she wrote.
In June 2025, he was sentenced to a fine of 600 thousand rubles with a ban on administering pages on the Internet.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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