Eduard Mochalov
Eduard Mochalov, born 1974, Chuvashia. Charges: Article 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Incitement of hatred or enmity); Article 315 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Failure to enforce a judicial act); “Eduard Mochalov's case”. Sentence (November 5, 2014): 400 hours of community work. Status: at large.
In brief
Chuvashia · Cheboksary · Journalists · Extremism cases
Sentence
400 hours of community work
Upheld December 19, 2014
Charges
- Article 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Incitement of hatred or enmity
- Article 315 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Failure to enforce a judicial act.
Full wording of the charges
He published a material inciting discord or hostility, failed to comply with the court decision to refute information harmful to the honour and dignity of certain officials
Latest event
July 14, 2016 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Persecution begins
Eduard Mochalov's case
Criminal case
Eduard Mochalov's case
Details and sources
Full summary
Editor-in-chief of the "Vziatka" ("Bribery") newspaper in Chuvashia. On July 23, 2014, it became known that a case of incitement to hatred or hostility had been opened against Mochalov; he was searched and interrogated; the reason was the republication of Fauzia Bayramova's article "We are Tatars, not Russians" in 1st issue of the newspaper in 2013. On November 6, Mochalov was found guilty of incitement to hatred or hostility, as well as failure to comply with the court decision (he did not publish refutations of information "harmful to the honour and dignity of certain officials"), and was sentenced to 400 hours of community work. In February 2025, it was reported that Mochalov was accused of insulting the head of the Morgaushsky district police department and his subordinate: he published a post in which he accused them of forging documents for the case of insulting the local farmer's daughter to stop the investigation. On December 15, 2025, the journalist was sentenced to 180 hours of community work.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.