Ivan Tishchenko
Ivan Tishchenko, born 1978, Moscow. Charges: Article 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Financing of extremist activities); “Ivan Tishchenko's case on financing extremist activities”. Sentence (December 24, 2024): 4 years' deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since May 29, 2026; place of detention: Penal colony No. 6, Moscow Oblast. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, December 17, 2024.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Medical workers · Extremism cases, Cases against Navalny/ACF supporters
Sentence
4 years
deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony
Upheld May 29, 2026
Charges
- Article 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Financing of extremist activities
Full wording of the charges
Seven transfers totalling $70 were imputed to them
Latest event
May 29, 2026 — cassation
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, December 17, 2024
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 4 years
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Persecution begins
Ivan Tishchenko's case on financing extremist activities
Criminal case
Ivan Tishchenko's case on financing extremist activities
Thematic group: Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) financing cases
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Facility: Penal colony No. 6, Moscow Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
140405 Московская область, г. Коломна, мкр. Колычево, Колычевский проезд д. 6, ФКУ «ИК № 6 УФСИН по Московской области», Тищенко Иван Сергеевич, 1978 г.р.
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Full summary
Moscow resident, vascular surgeon. On 27 February 2024, he was detained in connection with the event in memory of Boris Nemtsov and the next day was arrested for 15 days under the article on disorderly conduct (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences). Later, his sister reported that FSB officers had come to him in the special detention centre and threatened him with a criminal case under the extremist article. Then it became known that a case of financing extremist activities was brought against him because of donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation. On 25 December 2024, Tishchenko was sentenced to four years in a general regime colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Preventive measures
- pre-trial detention
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