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Aidar Kuchukov

At largeChecked October 18, 2026

Aidar Kuchukov, born 1959, Chelyabinsk Oblast. Charges: Article 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Incitement of hatred or enmity); “Aidar Kuchukov's case”. Sentence (December 13, 2017): 2 years' imprisonment with a probationary period of 2 years. Status: at large.

In brief

Chelyabinsk Oblast · Miass · Former security officers · Extremism cases

Sentence

2 years

imprisonment with a probationary period of 2 years

Verdict December 13, 2017

Upheld February 20, 2018

Charges

Full wording of the charges

In 2016 in the social network "My World" Aidar "imposed provocative topics other than those under discussion on the participants of the dialogue and posted messages based on national discord", as well as allowed himself to use insulting language against Russians; left comments on news items in various media, in particular, wrote "about the inevitability of the imminent defeat of the Russian Armed Forces in Syria, about the vulnerability of our weapons, about the anti-people regime of Vladimir Putin and the imminent growth of popular protest to change the government"; in comments on the news about the release of a Russian smartphone "started talking about the illegal actions of the FSB in Crimea, the anti-people annexation of the peninsula and the deterioration of life in Russia because of this".

Latest event

December 23, 2019 — persecution ends

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Timeline

  1. · Persecution ends

  2. · Appeal ruling

    upheld

  3. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict · 2 years

  4. · Persecution begins

    Aidar Kuchukov's case

Criminal case

Aidar Kuchukov's case

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Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

Former investigator of the Miass Police Department, former lawyer, deprived of his status for violating the interests of the defendant in a criminal case. A case of incitement to ethnic hatred due to statements against the war in Syria and actions in Crimea was instituted. On 13 December 2017, Kuchukov was sentenced to two years' suspended sentence.

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