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Mikhail Prosvirnin

At largeChecked October 18, 2026

Mikhail Prosvirnin, born 2001, Chelyabinsk Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Mikhail Prosvirnin”. Sentence (September 14, 2020): 3 years' suspended imprisonment. Status: at large.

In brief

Chelyabinsk Oblast · Chelyabinsk · Extremism cases, Cases related to mass actions

Sentence

3 years

suspended imprisonment

Verdict September 14, 2020

No information about an appeal ruling.

Charges

Full wording of the charges

continued the activities of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP), which was recognized as an extremist organization in 2007. According to the investigation, on April 25, 2020, they attacked a monument to Czechoslovak legionnaires in Chelyabinsk, hitting it with a sledgehammer and unfurling a banner reading "You will answer for Konev!"; and participated in an attempt to set fire to the building of the Prosecutor's Office in Chelyabinsk's Leninsky district.

Latest event

October 8, 2024 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Timeline

  1. · Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list

  2. · Persecution ends

  3. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict · 3 years

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

  5. · Preventive measure: pre-trial detention

    Pre-trial Detention Centre №7 (SIZO-7) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation

  6. · Persecution begins

    The case of Mikhail Prosvirnin

Criminal case

The case of Mikhail Prosvirnin

There are no other defendants in this case in the database.

Thematic group: The case of the Chelyabinsk National Bolshevism supporters (nazbols)

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

Detained on 8 June 2020 in front of the Prosecutor's Office of Leninsky District of Chelyabinsk during a rally against police abuse. On the 10th of June, he was arrested on suspicion of participating in the operations of an extremist organization.

Prosvirnin, as well as Golubev and Kryshka, who were detained with him, were subjected to an operational experiment, which involved, according to the unregistered "Other Russia", an embedded officer of the Central Investigative Committee. They were detained near the Chelyabinsk Prosecutor's Office in the Leninsky District while "attempting to set fire to the building." The investigation refers to the bottles containing incendiary material and the "NBP armbands" discovered at the scene as evidence of their plan to set fire to the building. Two more people were detained alongside them and are listed in the case under other surnames.

On 15 September he was sentenced to three years of probation.

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