Mikhail Popov
Mikhail Popov, born 1963, Stavropol Krai. Charges: Article 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Financing of extremist activities); “Mikhail Popov's case of financing extremist activities”. Status: location unknown.
In brief
Stavropol Krai · NULL · Entrepreneurs · Extremism cases, Cases against Navalny/ACF supporters
Sentence
No information about a verdict.
Charges
- Article 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Financing of extremist activities
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, in August 2021, Popov, being a supporter of the "Anti-Corruption Foundation" and an opponent of the authorities and the President of Russia, who was reliably aware that FBK had been recognised as an extremist organisation and liquidated by a court decision that had entered into legal force, decided to finance extremist activities by transferring money under the guise of donations to ACF accounts to support the activities of the said extremist organisation. He made a total of seven transfers from August 2021 to February 2022 for the sum of 7,000 roubles.
Latest event
September 23, 2025 — added to the rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
Timeline
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
Mikhail Popov's case of financing extremist activities
Criminal case
Mikhail Popov's case of financing extremist activities
- Case number
- 1-207/2025
Thematic group: Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) financing cases
Details and sources
Full summary
A resident of Essentuki, former chairman of the board of the local Union of Afghanistan Veterans.
In June 2025, a criminal case against Popov under the article on financing extremist activities was brought to court because of seven transfers to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) from August 2021 to February 2022, totalling 7,000 roubles.
In January 2021, Popov was arrested for 5 days because of an action in support of Alexei Navalny. After the start of the invasion of Ukraine, he went on an anti-war picket and wrote posts condemning the war. Because of two such posts in April 2022, he was fined 35,000 rubles under a protocol for discrediting the army. In 2024, he was also fined one thousand rubles under the protocol on demonstration of prohibited symbols because of the picture with the ACF logo published in VKontakte in 2018.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.