Grigorii Melkoniants
- Criminal Code
- Article 284.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Cases against "foreign agents"
- Verdict
- Ban on activity, Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 5 years
- Date of verdict
- 2025-05-14
- Region
- Moscow
- City
- Moscow
- Facility
- ФКУ «ИК № 2 УФСИН по Липецкой области»
- Address for letters
- 398007 г. Липецк, ул. Ковалёва, 130Б, ИК-2, ФКУ «ИК № 2 УФСИН по Липецкой области», Мельконьянц Григорий Аркадьевич, 1981 г.р.
Case summary
Co-chairman of the Golos ("Voice") movement, which monitors election violations. On August 17th 2023, Melkoniants' place was searched and it became known that a case had been opened against him for alleged cooperation with the European Network of Election Monitoring Organisations (ENEMO) — on September 27th 2021, the Prosecutor General Office declared it an "undesirable organisation". At the same time, there is no evidence of Melkoniants' participation in the activities of this network or that Golos is a subdivision of it. Melkoniants was taken into custody. On May 14th 2025, he was sentenced to 5 years in a general regime penal colony.
Others charged under Article 284.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
What we write about political persecution
Recent material from this section. This is section navigation — the articles below are not about this person.
- 2026-09-04Georgia court clears extradition of Fugal ally to Russia
- 2026-09-04Russia labels Novaya Gazeta a 'foreign agent,' adds over 100 affiliated names
- 2026-09-04Russian court sentences hostage-takers from Rostov detention center to up to 29 years
- 2026-09-04Two Yabloko Duma candidates detained in Moscow two days before vote
- 2026-09-03British man says Russian police beat him, jumped on his head at station in Yessentuki
Source: this person’s record in the OVD-Info political persecution database
Published under CC BY 3.0. The criteria for treating a person as politically persecuted belong to OVD-Info; FACTUM relays their assessment and makes none of its own.
OVD-Info has been designated an «extremist» organisation in Russia — by decision of the Russian authorities, like other independent human rights and media projects.