Dmitrii Taigin
Dmitrii Taigin, born 1979, Krasnoyarsk Krai. Charges: Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization); “Dmitrii Taigin's case of participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation”. Sentence (August 27, 2025): 14 years' imprisonment, of which the first 3 in prison, the rest in a strict regime penal colony; previously convicted under Article 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since October 11, 2025.
In brief
Sentence
14 years
imprisonment, of which the first 3 in prison, the rest in a strict regime penal colony
No information about an appeal ruling.
Other verdicts
- April 8, 2025 — Imprisonment (strict regime)
Charges
- Article 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Public incitement to terrorism, or justification of terrorism
- Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, "being an opponent of the established constitutional order and authorities in the Russian Federation, being a participant and supporter of the Ukrainian paramilitary nationalist association "Azov", recognised as a terrorist organisation and whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation, he disseminated the ideology of this organisation".
Latest event
October 11, 2025 — imprisonment begins
Timeline
· Imprisonment begins
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 14 years
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Imprisonment begins
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
Criminal case
Dmitrii Taigin's case of participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation
- Case number
- 1-133/2025
Dmitrii Taigin’s case on the promotion of terrorism
- Case number
- 1-71/2025
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Full summary
A native of the Krasnoyarsk region. In 2017 he was sentenced in Moscow in a murder case and was serving his sentence in his native region. Because of the conversations he held with other prisoners about the Azov battalion, two additional cases were initiated against him: accusing him of propaganda of terrorism and participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation. On 8 April 2025 Taigin was sentenced in the first of these two cases, and on 27 August in the second. Taking into account the term in the original case, he was sentenced in total to 14 years in a strict regime penal colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Persecution episodes
- 2
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