Andrey Kotov
- Criminal Code
- Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Anti-war cases
- Verdict
- Ban on activity, Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 3 years
- Date of verdict
- 2025-04-09
- Region
- Vladimir Oblast
- City
- Kovrov
- Facility
- ФКУ «ИК № 4 УФСИН по Владимирской области»
- Address for letters
- 601443, Владимирская область, г. Вязники, ул. Железнодорожная, д. 37, ФКУ «ИК № 4 УФСИН по Владимирской области», Котов Андрей Алексеевич, 2000 г.р.
Case summary
A resident of Kovrov (Vladimir region). On September 5, 2024, the press service of the local branch of the Investigative Committee announced that he had been taken into custody in a case concerning the dissemination of deliberately false information about the Russian Armed Forces. On April 9, 2025, Kotov was sentenced to three years in a general-regime penal colony.
Others charged under Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
What we write about political persecution
Recent material from this section. This is section navigation — the articles below are not about this person.
- 2026-09-04Georgia court clears extradition of Fugal ally to Russia
- 2026-09-04Russia labels Novaya Gazeta a 'foreign agent,' adds over 100 affiliated names
- 2026-09-04Russian court sentences hostage-takers from Rostov detention center to up to 29 years
- 2026-09-04Two Yabloko Duma candidates detained in Moscow two days before vote
- 2026-09-03British man says Russian police beat him, jumped on his head at station in Yessentuki
Source: this person’s record in the OVD-Info political persecution database
Published under CC BY 3.0. The criteria for treating a person as politically persecuted belong to OVD-Info; FACTUM relays their assessment and makes none of its own.
OVD-Info has been designated an «extremist» organisation in Russia — by decision of the Russian authorities, like other independent human rights and media projects.