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Alexey Popov

At largeChecked October 18, 2026

Alexey Popov, born 1996, Rostov Oblast. Charges: Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public calls for extremism (using mass media or the internet)); “Alexei Popov's case”. Status: at large.

In brief

Rostov Oblast · Kamensk-Shakhtinsky · Extremism cases

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published a post on VKontakte saying that in the event of imperialist war one should "raise arms against one's own liberal government" and then "carry the flames of revolution to a country at war with Russia, or a bloc of countries"; incited hatred against a social group of billionaires

Latest event

April 14, 2023 — added to the rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Timeline

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

  2. · Persecution begins

    Alexei Popov's case

Criminal case

Alexei Popov's case

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In March, a case was brought against Popov for calls to extremism.

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