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Airat Shakirov

At largeChecked October 18, 2026

Airat Shakirov, born 1971, Tatarstan. Charges: Article 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Incitement of hatred or enmity); “The case of Airat Shakirov”. Sentence (May 15, 2017): a fine in the amount of one hundred thousand rubles, to be released from the execution of punishment due to the… Status: at large.

In brief

Tatarstan · Religious figures · Extremism cases

Sentence

a fine in the amount of one hundred thousand rubles, to be released from the execution of punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations

Verdict May 15, 2017

No information about an appeal ruling.

Charges

Full wording of the charges

published a banned video "08.02.2013 rally in Makhachkala" in the social network "VKontakte".

Latest event

September 7, 2017 — 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, released from serving the sentence

  4. · Persecution begins

    The case of Airat Shakirov

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

Criminal case

The case of Airat Shakirov

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

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

He was charged with incitement to hatred because he posted a video from a rally in Makhachkala on February 8, 2013 against police brutality on his VKontakte page, a video that was included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials. Shakirov claimed that his laptop had been unattended for some time and the video could have been posted by someone else, besides he himself deleted the video immediately after it appeared on the list. On May 16, 2017, he was sentenced to a fine of one hundred thousand rubles and released from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

In 2009 and 2010, the prosecutor's office issued warnings to Shakirov about the unacceptability of extremist activity. In July 2012, he was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attempted assassination of Mufti Ildus Faizov and the murder of his deputy Valiulla Yakupov, but no evidence of his involvement in the crime was found. In 2015, he was one of the public defenders of nationalist activist Rafis Kashapov. Then he also was given 10 days of arrest under Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code - for two images in support of Ukraine in "VKontakte", a collage and a cartoon with a swastika. The cartoon, showing a man with a whip chasing swastikas from Donbass, was accompanied by the inscription "Russia, go home". The judge said in his ruling that the association of swastikas with Russia is not acceptable.

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