Aleksandr Kondratov

Aleksandr Kondratov was a Russian film and television production designer. He received the Golden Eagle and TEFI awards for his work on the 2007 television series Liquidation. He had lived and worked in Kyiv since 2012.

Kondratov was detained on May 5, 2026, at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport after arriving to renew his passport. Repeated administrative arrests kept him in detention for more than 70 days. In August, the authorities opened a treason case against him under Article 275 of the Russian Criminal Code. The precise allegations were not publicly disclosed; reports referred to online posts.

He was taken from pretrial detention to Moscow's Botkin Hospital on October 23, 2026. His lawyer confirmed his death on October 26. As of this profile's preparation, the precise cause and circumstances of death had not been established in publicly available medical documents. He was never convicted in the treason case. The Memorial political-prisoner support project subsequently listed him in its archive and among people who died during politically motivated persecution; it had previously cautioned that inclusion in its broader monitoring list did not itself amount to formal recognition as a political prisoner.