Alexei Sadomovskii
Alexei Sadomovskii, born 1989. Charges: Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code (Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government…); “Alexei Sadomovskii's case of military fakes”. Sentence (March 19, 2026): 8 years' imprisonment in absentia. Status: not in Russia.
In brief
Politicians · Anti-war cases
Sentence
8 years
imprisonment in absentia
First instance, January 27, 2026: 8 years
Charges
- Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code — Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government agencies, or mercenaries (based on political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred or enmity, or on grounds of hatred or enmity in relation to any social group)
Full wording of the charges
According to Sadomovskii, the reason for the prosecution were two posts on VKontakte written by him in April 2022. According to the investigation, in said posts "motivated by hatred" towards the Russian military, he criticised the war and wrote about the deaths of civilians in Irpen, Gostomel, Mariupol and Bucha. The publications have now been deleted.
Latest event
March 19, 2026 — appeal
The court changed the sentence to 8 years.
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
sentence changed · 8 years
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 8 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
Alexei Sadomovskii's case of military fakes
Criminal case
Alexei Sadomovskii's case of military fakes
- Case number
- 1-318/2025
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Details and sources
Full summary
Sadomovskii is a former deputy chairman of the Yabloko branch in Nizhny Novgorod region, and an ex-head of Ilya Varlamov and Maxim Katz's Urban Projects Foundation in Nizhny Novgorod. After the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Sadomovskii left Russia for Kazakhstan, where he worked on opening shelters for Russians who had fled mobilization.
In August 2025, it became known that he was prosecuted for spreading "fakes" about the Russian army because of two posts published in April 2022. In these posts he criticised the invasion of Ukraine and wrote about civilian deaths in the Ukrainian cities of Irpen, Gostomel, Mariupol and Bucha. On 27 January 2026, Sadomovskii was sentenced in absentia to eight years.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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