Kirill Martynov
Kirill Martynov, born 1981, Moscow. Charges: Article 284.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an undesirable organization); “Kirill Martynov's case”. Sentence (April 22, 2025): 6 years' imprisonment in absentia, prohibition to administer Internet sites for 3 years. Status: not in Russia.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Bloggers, Journalists · Anti-war cases, Terrorism cases, Cases against "foreign agents"
Sentence
6 years
imprisonment in absentia, prohibition to administer Internet sites for 3 years
Upheld November 19, 2025
Charges
- Article 205.4 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Organisation of a terrorist community and participation in it
- Article 278, Russian Criminal Code — Violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order
- Article 284.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an undesirable organization
Full wording of the charges
The reason for the case was "exercising the functions of editor-in-chief" of Novaya Gazeta. Europe" and "exercising the functions of the head" of "Free University".
Latest event
November 19, 2025 — appeal
The court upheld the verdict.
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years
· Criminal case opened
The case of Anti-War Committee of Russia
· Preventive measure: arrest in absentia
· Persecution begins
Kirill Martynov's case
· Added to the register of “foreign agents”
Criminal case
Kirill Martynov's case
- Case number
- 01-0224/2025
The case of Anti-War Committee of Russia
Other defendants in the case
- Sergei Aleksashenko — Not in Russia
- Marat Gelman — Not in Russia
- Leonid Gozman — Not in Russia
- Dmitry Gudkov — Not in Russia
- Sergei Guriev — Not in Russia
- Boris Zimin — Not in Russia
- Vladimir Kara-Murza — Not in Russia
- Garry Kasparov — Not in Russia
- Mikhail Kasianov — Not in Russia
- Evgenii Kiselev — Not in Russia
- Mikhail Kokorich — Not in Russia
- Evgenii Kunin — Not in Russia
- Elena Lukyanova — Not in Russia
- Yuri Pivovarov — Not in Russia
- Maxim Reznik — Not in Russia
- Artur Smolianinov — Not in Russia
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky — Not in Russia
- Evgenii Chichvarkin — Not in Russia
- Konstantin Chumakov — Not in Russia
- Anastasia Shevchenko — Not in Russia
- Viktor Shenderovich — Not in Russia
- Ekaterina Shulman — Not in Russia
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Details and sources
Full summary
He is the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe, one of the founders of the Free University educational project, and a member of the governing board of the Anti-War Committee of Russia - all of these organisations have been recognised as "undesirable". In September 2022, Martynov was included in the register of "foreign agents". In September 2024, it became known that a case was brought against him for organizing the activities of an "undesirable organization". On April 22, 2025, Martynov was sentenced in absentia to six years. On October 14, 2025, the FSB announced that a case of violent seizure of power and organization of activities of a terrorist community had been opened against Martynov and other members of the Anti-War Committee of Russia. The Berlin Declaration on the need for regime change in Russia served as the pretext for drafting it.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Preventive measures
- arrest in absentia
- Persecution episodes
- 2
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.4 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.