Iaroslav Rybin
- Criminal Code
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Extremism cases
- Verdict
- Ban on activity, Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 3 years
- Date of verdict
- 2025-12-04
- Region
- Krasnodar Krai
- City
- Sochi
Case summary
Resident of Sochi. Not earlier than July 2025, he was taken into custody on charges of participation in the activities of an extremist organisation. The grounds for this were that he, together with his mother, had put state plates of an unknown type with symbols of the organisation "citizens of the USSR" on the car and told his acquaintances about it. On 4 December 2025 Rybin was sentenced to 3 years' imprisonment in a general regime colony.
Others charged under Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
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