Ekaterina Shulman
Ekaterina Shulman, born 1978. Charges: Article 330.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Violation of the procedure for activities of a foreign agent, committed by a person after being…); “Ekaterina Shulman’s case on evading the obligations of a foreign agent”, opened on March 1, 2025. Sentence (March 2, 2026): 1 year's deprivation of liberty in absentia. Status: not in Russia.
In brief
Scientists · Anti-war cases, Terrorism cases, Cases against "foreign agents"
Sentence
1 year
s deprivation of liberty in absentia
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 330.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Violation of the procedure for activities of a foreign agent, committed by a person after being persecuted for an administrative offence
- 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
Latest event
March 2, 2026 — first-instance verdict
The court delivered a guilty verdict: 1 year.
Timeline
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 1 year
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: arrest in absentia
· Criminal case opened
Ekaterina Shulman’s case on evading the obligations of a foreign agent
· Persecution begins
The case of Anti-War Committee of Russia
· Added to the register of “foreign agents”
Criminal case
Ekaterina Shulman’s case on evading the obligations of a foreign agent
- Case number
- 01-0230/2026
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
- Maxim Reznik — 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
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Details and sources
Full summary
A political scientist. In April 2022, she was included in the register of "foreign agents". In March 2025, it became known that a case was brought against Shulman for evasion of duties of a "foreign agent". On 14 October 2025, Russia's Federal Security Service reported about the initiation of a case against Shulman and other members of the Anti-War Committee of Russia for violent seizure of power and organisation of activities of a terrorist community. The reason was the adoption of the "Berlin Declaration" on the need for a change of power in Russia.
On 2 March 2026, Shulman was sentenced in absentia to a year in a penal colony for evading her duties as a "foreign agent".
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Preventive measures
- arrest in absentia
- 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.