Vyacheslav Kryukov
Vyacheslav Kryukov, born 1998, Moscow. Charges: Article 282.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Creation and leadership of an extremist community); “The case of ‘New Greatness’ (Novoe Velichie)”. Sentence (August 5, 2020): 6 years' deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony with 2 years' restriction of liberty and a 5-year ban… Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, September 27, 2018.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Students · Extremism cases
Sentence
6 years
deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony with 2 years' restriction of liberty and a 5-year ban on posting materials on the Internet
Upheld January 16, 2022
Charges
- Article 282.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Creation and leadership of an extremist community
Full wording of the charges
Participated in the organisation of an extremist organisation
Latest event
January 16, 2022 — cassation
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, September 27, 2018
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· Persecution ends
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Persecution begins
The case of ‘New Greatness’ (Novoe Velichie)
Criminal case
The case of ‘New Greatness’ (Novoe Velichie)
- Case number
- 01-0001/2020(01-0315/2019)
Other defendants in the case
- Maria Dubovik — At large, 6 years
- Pyotr Karamzin — Imprisoned, 6 years 3 months
- Ruslan Kostylenkov — Imprisoned, 6 years 9 months
- Anna Pavlikova — At large, 4 years
- Poletaev Dmitrii Vladimirovich — At large, 6 years
- Maxim Roshchin — At large, 6 years 6 months
Thematic group: The case of the "New Greatness"
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Facility: Pre-trial detention centre No. 3, Moscow
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
123308, г. Москва, 1-й Силикатный проезд, д. 11, к. 1, ФКУ СИЗО-3 ГУФСИН России по г. Москве ("Пресня"), Крюков Вячеслав Владиславович, 1998 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Vyacheslav Kryukov was detained on 15 March 2018, the next day he was taken into custody. On 11 September, the young man went on hunger strike in protest against his arrest and criminal prosecution.
On 6 August 2020, he was sentenced to six years in a general regime colony. He was released on 14 October 2022. He was assigned administrative supervision for eight years.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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