Evgenii Kononenko
Evgenii Kononenko, born 1978, Sverdlovsk Oblast. Charges: Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)); “Evgenii Kononenko's case of public justification of terrorism”. Sentence (October 27, 2025): sentence unknown. Status: location unknown.
In brief
Sentence
sentence unknown
No information about an appeal ruling.
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 case was the comment "That's right! We should burn Moscow together with the country's leadership" under a post in the "Tyumen Emergency" public forum on VKontakte. The comment referred to the news about Vladislav Borisenko from Nizhnevartovsk, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison in a case of arson at the local military recruitment centre.
Latest event
October 27, 2025 — first-instance verdict
The court issued a ruling.
Timeline
· First-instance verdict
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
Evgenii Kononenko's case of public justification of terrorism
Criminal case
Evgenii Kononenko's case of public justification of terrorism
- Case number
- 2-271/2025
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Details and sources
Full summary
A resident of the Sverdlovsk region, he was born in Kramatorsk (Donetsk region of Ukraine). In February 2025, he was detained in a case of public justification of terrorism. He was charged with a number of comments about Putin, war and sending to kill for money. The final version of the charges included only a comment approving the arson attack on a military recruitment centre committed by Vladislav Borisenko, a resident of Nizhnevartovsk, in May 2022. On 27 October 2025 Kononenko was sentenced, details are unknown.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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