Maxim Kormelitsky
Maxim Kormelitsky, born 1995, Novosibirsk Oblast. Charges: Article 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Incitement of hatred or enmity); “Maksim Kormelitsky's case”. Sentence (May 30, 2016): 1 year 3 months' in a colony-settlement. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, September 4, 2016.
In brief
Novosibirsk Oblast · Berdsk · Students · Extremism cases
Sentence
1 year 3 months
in a colony-settlement
Upheld August 9, 2016
Charges
- Article 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Incitement of hatred or enmity
Full wording of the charges
Posted on his page in the social network VKontakte a photograph "depicting people bathing in an ice-hole", accompanying it with a comment "insulting the dignity of a person and a group of persons on the grounds of their attitude to Christianity" and containing obsence language
Latest event
February 11, 2026 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, September 4, 2016
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Persecution ends
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 1 year 3 months
· Persecution begins
Maksim Kormelitsky's case
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
Criminal case
Maksim Kormelitsky's case
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of Novosibirsk. On the application of Orthodox activist Yuri Zadoi, a case of incitement to religious hatred was brought against him in connection with a publication on the social network VKontakte. On 31st May 2016, Kormelitsky was sentenced to a year in a penal colony. The court added another three months to the sentence, as Kormelitsky had previously been sentenced to a suspended sentence, the probation period for which had not expired.
In September 2016, shortly before Kormelitsky was due to go to a penal colony, he was arrested on charges of attempted murder of a girl. We do not see a political motive in this prosecution.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.