Dmitrii Salikhov
Dmitrii Salikhov, born 1990, Primorsky Krai. Charges: Article 280.4 part 2 item v, Russian Criminal Code; “Dmitrii Salikhov's case of calls for actions aimed against security of Russia”. Sentence (April 16, 2025): 2 years' imprisonment in a general-regime penal colony. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, March 10, 2026.
In brief
Primorsky Krai · Vladivostok
Sentence
2 years
imprisonment in a general-regime penal colony
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, while located at <address> , being a user of the publicly accessible telecommunications network “the Internet” (hereinafter – the Internet), using his Apple mobile telephone, model iPhone 14 Pro, he familiarised himself—inter alia with the use of software for translation from Ukrainian into Russian—on the video-hosting platform YouTube, with a publication containing text beginning with the words ‘ПРОШУ ПIДТРИМАТИ ЗБIP’ (translated from Ukrainian as ‘please support the fundraiser’) and ending with the words ‘Номер картки банки…’ (translated from Ukrainian as ‘bank card number…’). As a result, D.E. Salikhov, being aware of the prohibition on activities carried out within the territory of the Russian Federation that are directed against the security of the Russian Federation, and also harbouring dissatisfaction with Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and hostility towards the political regime of the Russian Federation, formed a criminal intent aimed at publicly calling upon an indefinite circle of persons to provide financial assistance to a foreign state in activities directed against the security of the Russian Federation, that is, to commit an offence according to Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In order to implement this criminal intent, on DD.MM.YYYY, between 20:30 and 20:47 (Vladivostok time), D.E. Salikhov, while at <address> , took an electronic screenshot on his Apple iPhone 14 Pro displaying the above-mentioned publication, which he saved in the memory of the device. Subsequently, on DD.MM.YYYY at 20:47, D.E. Salikhov, while at <address> , being an Internet user, acting intentionally and motivated by political hatred, fully aware of the unlawfulness and social danger of his actions, their public nature, and the fact that the text captured in the previously taken screenshot contained appeals to provide financial assistance to a foreign state—Ukraine—in activities directed against the security of the Russian Federation (that is, calls to commit an offence according to Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), foreseeing the possibility and inevitability of socially dangerous consequences in the form of inciting an indefinite number of Internet users to commit such an offence, and desiring such consequences, using his Apple iPhone 14 Pro with Internet access, published on the Internet, in his personal profile of the publicly accessible messaging application WhatsApp, in the Status section accessible to an unlimited number of users of the said application who have the mobile number (984)158-24-92 in their contacts, a publication containing text beginning with the words ‘ПРОШУ ПIДТРИМАТИ ЗБIP’ (‘please support the fundraiser’) and ending with the words ‘Номер картки банки…’ (‘bank card number…’). According to expert report No. dated DD.MM.YYYY, this publication contains linguistic and psychological features of inducement to actions aimed at collecting funds (including the indication of a bank card number) in the amount of 78,000 hryvnias for the purpose of purchasing an optical sight for the 61st Brigade, namely the 61st Separate Mechanised Steppe Brigade, which forms part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and whose activities are directed against the security of the Russian Federation.
Latest event
May 1, 2026 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, March 10, 2026
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years
· Persecution begins
Dmitrii Salikhov's case of calls for actions aimed against security of Russia
Criminal case
Dmitrii Salikhov's case of calls for actions aimed against security of Russia
- Case number
- 1-75/2025 (1-651/2024;)
Details and sources
Full summary
A resident of Vladivostok. No later than September 2024, he was detained. A case was opened against him for calls for activities against the security of the Russian Federation. The reason was a screenshot with a call to support fundraising for a telescopic sight for the AFU. On 16 April 2025, Salikhov was sentenced to two years in a general regime colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 280.4 part 2 item v, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.