Maxim Reznik
Maxim Reznik, born 1974, Saint Petersburg. Charges: Article 205.4 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Organisation of a terrorist community and participation in it); Article 278, Russian Criminal Code (Violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order); “The case of Anti-War Committee of Russia”, opened on January 1, 2025. Previously convicted under Article 228.1, Russian Criminal Code. Status: not in Russia. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, March 29, 2022.
In brief
Saint Petersburg · Saint Petersburg · Municipal deputies · Anti-war cases, Terrorism cases, Cases against "foreign agents"
Sentence
5 months
imprisonment in a penal colony
Upheld July 6, 2022
Charges
- Article 205.4 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Organisation of a terrorist community and participation in it
- Article 278, Russian Criminal Code — Violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order
- Article 228.1, Russian Criminal Code
Full wording of the charges
bought 18.2 grammes of marijuana "for personal consumption".
Latest event
November 21, 2025 — added to the rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, March 29, 2022
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre
Timeline
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Criminal case opened
The case of Anti-War Committee of Russia
· Added to the register of “foreign agents”
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 5 months
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Persecution ends
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Persecution begins
Maksim Reznik's case
Criminal case
Maksim Reznik's case
The case of Anti-War Committee of Russia
Other defendants in the case
- Sergei Aleksashenko — Not in Russia
- Marat Gelman — Not in Russia
- Leonid Gozman — Not in Russia
- Dmitry Gudkov — Not in Russia
- Sergei Guriev — Not in Russia
- Boris Zimin — Not in Russia
- Vladimir Kara-Murza — Not in Russia
- Garry Kasparov — Not in Russia
- Mikhail Kasianov — Not in Russia
- Evgenii Kiselev — Not in Russia
- Mikhail Kokorich — Not in Russia
- Evgenii Kunin — Not in Russia
- Elena Lukyanova — Not in Russia
- Kirill Martynov — Not in Russia
- Yuri Pivovarov — Not in Russia
- Artur Smolianinov — Not in Russia
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky — Not in Russia
- Evgenii Chichvarkin — Not in Russia
- Konstantin Chumakov — Not in Russia
- Anastasia Shevchenko — Not in Russia
- Viktor Shenderovich — Not in Russia
- Ekaterina Shulman — Not in Russia
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Details and sources
Full summary
On June 17, 2021, a criminal case was opened against Reznik. The next day, the court sent him under house arrest. On April 20, 2022, Reznik was sentenced to five months in a penal colony. He was released in the courtroom, as the time spent under house arrest was counted as punishment.
In September 2022, he left Russia due to fear of new persecution. A year later, the Ministry of Justice recognised him as a "foreign agent".
On June 19, 2025, Reznik was put on a wanted list. The details of the case are unknown.
On October 14, 2025, the FSB reported about the initiation of a case against Reznik and other members of the "Anti-War Committee of Russia" on the violent seizure of power and organization of activities of a terrorist community. The reason was the adoption of the "Berlin Declaration" on the need for a change of government in Russia.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Persecution episodes
- 2
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.4 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.