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Andriy Sivak

At largeChecked October 18, 2026

Andriy Sivak, born 1974, Moscow Oblast. Charges: Article 282 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Incitement of hatred or enmity); “The case of "Jehovah's Witnesses" in Sergiyev Posad”. Status: at large.

In brief

Moscow Oblast · Sergiyev Posad · Teachers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses

Sentence

No information about a verdict.

Charges

Full wording of the charges

as part of a sustainable criminal organised group, under the guise of a non-profit organisation, organised and held a religious meeting at which he recited sayings and quotations from books inscribed in the Federal List of Extremist Materials of the Russian Federation, pointed out to community members and instructed them to oppose all religions except for Jehovah's Witnesses, forbade them to participate in celebrations of holidays of "false religion" and in singing songs and prayers of the "false religion", persuaded them to leave the work in which the member of the assembly participates in the "false" worship or support for it, forbade close association with members of other religions, also uttered propagandistic statements

Latest event

October 11, 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. · Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”

  4. · Persecution begins

    The case of "Jehovah's Witnesses" in Sergiyev Posad

Criminal case

The case of "Jehovah's Witnesses" in Sergiyev Posad

Other defendants in the case

Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Sergiev Posad

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

On 12 April 2013, the house was searched, Jehovah's Witnesses literature was seized, and a case was opened for incitement to religious hatred based on statements made during community meetings. On 4 March 2016, the court acquitted Sivak. The court ruling stated, inter alia, that the experts "substituted the objects submitted for examination with objects found by hand". On 26 May 2016, the appellate court sent the case for a new examination. On 21 June 2017, the Sergiev Posad court acquitted Sivak for a second time.

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