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Dmitry Polunin

ImprisonedChecked October 18, 2026

Dmitry Polunin, Krasnodar Krai. Charges: Article 275.1, Russian Criminal Code (Confidential cooperation with foreigners); “Dmitry Polunin's case of confidential cooperation with a foreign organisation”. Sentenced on July 10, 2024. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since September 22, 2023. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, February 18, 2025.

In brief

Krasnodar Krai · Krasnodar · Anti-war cases

Sentence

Verdict July 10, 2024

No information about an appeal ruling.

Charges

Latest event

February 18, 2025 — recognised as a political prisoner

Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Recognition by rights defenders

Timeline

  1. · Recognised as a political prisoner

    Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners

  2. · Imprisonment begins

  3. · First-instance verdict

  4. · Preventive measure: pre-trial detention

  5. · Persecution begins

    Dmitry Polunin's case of confidential cooperation with a foreign organisation

Criminal case

Dmitry Polunin's case of confidential cooperation with a foreign organisation

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Thematic group: Anti-war case

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Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

Resident of Anapa. On 22 September 2023, he was arrested for 15 days under the administrative article on failure to comply with police requirements (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences): he was accused of failing to provide the law enforcers with identification documents. Immediately after leaving the special reception centre he was detained again and given 15 days of arrest under the article ondisorderly conduct (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences), because he "shouted loudly, used coarse profanity, did not react to the comments of passers-by, tried to start a fight". He was then transported to Novorossiysk, where he was arrested twice in a row under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences: on one occasion he was arrested for 15 days on the charge that he was drunk in the middle of the night and was trying to run away from the cops. This was followed by two arrests for 15 and 10 days under Article 20.1 of the CAO in Slavyansk-on-Kuban. During one of the sessions in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Polunin said that he did not consider himself guilty and "repented for speaking out against the military special operation in Ukraine". After that, he was arrested under Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences for 15 days in Krymsk, Tikhoretsk and the village of Vyselki, and for 10 days in the village of Dinskaya, this last decision on administrative arrest was issued on 10 January 2024. In total, Polunin was arrested at least 10 times, he spent 140 days in special reception centres or police departments, after which a criminal case was opened against him for cooperation with a foreign organisation. On 10 July 2024, Polunin was sentenced, details are unknown.

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