Daniil Krinari
Daniil Krinari, born 1988, Moscow. Charges: Article 275.1, Russian Criminal Code (Confidential cooperation with foreigners); “Daniil Krinari's case of cooperation with Ukraine”, opened on December 1, 2022. Sentence (April 8, 2024): 5 years' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. Status: location unknown. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, August 17, 2024.
In brief
Moscow, Saint Petersburg · Moscow, Saint Petersburg · Artists, Entrepreneurs · Anti-war cases
Sentence
5 years
imprisonment in a general regime penal colony
Upheld June 5, 2024
Charges
- Article 275.1, Russian Criminal Code — Confidential cooperation with foreigners
- Article 207 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Knowingly false reporting of an impending terrorist act (motivated by hooliganism, targeting social infrastructure or causing significant damage)
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, he is implicated in the creation of an intelligence network to prepare terrorist attacks on sites in the Belarusian city of Grodno, one of which could have been the building of the Russian Consulate General. Allegedly recruited two individuals and assisted one of them in fleeing Russia.
Latest event
October 20, 2026 — case status changed
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, August 17, 2024
Timeline
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 5 years
· Criminal case opened
Daniil Krinari's case of cooperation with Ukraine
· Persecution begins
The case of a false bomb threat of the Moscow District Court
Criminal case
The case of a false bomb threat of the Moscow District Court
Other defendants in the case
- Viktoria Arefyeva — Location unknown
- Polina B. — At large
- Barykina A — Location unknown
- Andrei Belous — Location unknown
- D. Bogdanov — Location unknown
- Anton Grachev — Location unknown
- Evgeniya Litvinova — Not in Russia
- Dmitrii Martynichev — Location unknown
- Egor Pavlov — Location unknown
- Bella Rapoport — Location unknown
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Daniil Krinari's case of cooperation with Ukraine
Details and sources
Full summary
A resident of St. Petersburg. On 24 September 2022, he was detained following a search carried out due to a case of false reporting of a bomb threat. 48 hours later he was released from a temporary detention centre. He attempted to flee the country. On 21 December, Krinari was detained in the Belarusian city of Grodno. After that, he was brought to Moscow - it turned out that the case was handled by the Moscow investigative department of the FSB. Krinari was taken into custody. He is charged with the article on cooperation with a foreign state (Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code). On 9 April 2024, Krinari was sentenced to five years in a general regime penal colony. On 3 September 2025, Krinari was included in the list of extremists and terrorists of Rosfinmonitoring, with a mark indicating prosecution under terrorist-related charges.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of detention
- Pre-trial detention centre No. 1, Tatarstan
- Persecution episodes
- 2
Other people prosecuted under Article 207 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.