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Robert Latypov

Not in RussiaChecked October 18, 2026

Robert Latypov, born 1973, Perm Krai. Charges: Article 226.1 part 3 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Illegal movement across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union or the State border of the…); “Perm Memorial's case of attempted smuggling of cultural property”. Status: not in Russia.

In brief

Perm Krai · Perm · Teachers · Cases against "foreign agents"

Sentence

No information about a verdict.

Preventive measure: arrest in absentia since April 10, 2024

Charges

  • Article 226.1 part 3 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Illegal movement across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union or the State border of the Russian Federation with the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union of strategically important goods and resources, cultural values, especially valuable wild animals, aquatic biological resources, plants and mushrooms, committed by an organized group
Full wording of the charges

According to the investigation, together with Alexander Chernyshov, Latypov tried to "export from Russia to Germany the documents of Memorial, which are of cultural and historical value".

Latest event

April 10, 2024 — preventive measure: arrest in absentia

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Timeline

  1. · Preventive measure: arrest in absentia

  2. · Added to the register of “foreign agents”

  3. · Persecution begins

    Perm Memorial's case of attempted smuggling of cultural property

Criminal case

Perm Memorial's case of attempted smuggling of cultural property

Other defendants in the case

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

On 19 May 2023, large-scale searches took place in Perm in the homes of local human rights activists and members of the board of directors of the Centre for Historical Memory, organisation that became the succession to the human rights organisation Memorial. It became known that a case of attempted smuggling of cultural property had been initiated against Latypov. Latypov has since left Russia.

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