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Roman Maryan

At largeChecked October 18, 2026

Roman Maryan, born 1978, Krasnoyarsk Krai. Charges: Article 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code (Assisting or financing terrorist activities); “Roman Marian's second case”, opened on December 24, 2024. Sentence (June 18, 2025): 9 years’ imprisonment, with the first 3 years to be served in prison and the remainder in a strict regime penal colony; previously convicted under Article 212 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, September 12, 2018; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, March 13, 2018.

In brief

Krasnoyarsk Krai · Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk · Terrorism cases, Cases related to mass actions

Sentence

9 years

imprisonment, with the first 3 years to be served in prison and the remainder in a strict regime penal colony.

Verdict June 18, 2025

Upheld November 17, 2025

Other verdicts

  • August 26, 2018 — 3 years 2 months' imprisonment in a general regime colony

Charges

Full wording of the charges

The case was opened due to a donation made to the "Artpodgotovka" movement.

Latest event

October 20, 2026 — case status changed

Became known October 20, 2026 · checked October 18, 2026

Recognition by rights defenders

Timeline

  1. · Appeal ruling

    upheld

  2. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict · 9 years

  3. · Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”

  4. · Criminal case opened

    Roman Marian's second case

  5. · Persecution ends

  6. · Appeal ruling

    upheld

Criminal case

Roman Marian's second case

Case number
1-112/2025

There are no other defendants in this case in the database.

Roman Maryan's case of preparation for mass riots in the Krasnoyarsk region

Case number
1-264/2018

There are no other defendants in this case in the database.

Thematic group: Cases of the "Maltsev revolution"; The case of Krasnoyarsk supporters of Vyacheslav Maltsev

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

A resident of Krasnoyarsk. At the end of October 2017, police officers removed him from a train at Achinsk station and took him to Pre-Trial Detention Centre No. 1 in Krasnoyarsk. According to the Memorial Human Rights Centre website, the activist was travelling to Moscow to participate in the Russian March and the 5.11.17 Revolution, organised by opposition figure Vyacheslav Maltsev. The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Krasnoyarsk then ordered Maryan’s arrest for two months on charges of preparing to participate in mass riots (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code, applied together with Part 1 of Article 30). On 27 January 2018, the court extended his arrest for a further two months. According to the investigation, Roman Maryan received a letter calling for an armed uprising on 5 November 2017 in Moscow and was preparing to take part.

On 27 August 2018, the court sentenced Maryan to three years and two months in a general regime penal colony. He was released on 15 June 2020.

On 24 December 2024, Maryan was detained again and taken into custody in a case concerning the financing of terrorist activities, due to a donation made to the Artpodgotovka movement. On 18 June 2025, the court sentenced him to nine years’ imprisonment, with the first three years to be served in prison and the remainder in a strict regime penal colony.

All fields of the record
Citizenship
Russia
Place of detention
Prison No. 2, Krasnoyarsk Krai
Persecution episodes
2
Sources (2)

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