Danila Tkachenko
- Criminal Code
- Article 213 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Anti-war casesCases related to mass actions
- Region
- Moscow
- City
- Moscow
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religionby Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, 19 September 2022
This is the assessment of the organisation named above, not ours. FACTUM reports it with attribution and does not make its own.
Case summary
World Press Photo laureate, author of a scandalous project in which he set fire to abandoned village houses and took photographs. He left Russia before the day of the planned protest action. Tkachenko was going to remotely set off blue and yellow smoke bombs built into air conditioners outside the windows of an apartment near the Kremlin, but law enforcement officers broke into the apartment. Special services officers later told Tkachenko that they began following him immediately after he bought the remote-controlled GSM sockets. Tkachenko's relatives were searched and threatened that they would also be suspects in the case.
What we write about political persecution
Recent material from this section. This is section navigation — the articles below are not about this person.
- 2026-09-04Georgia court clears extradition of Fugal ally to Russia
- 2026-09-04Russia labels Novaya Gazeta a 'foreign agent,' adds over 100 affiliated names
- 2026-09-04Russian court sentences hostage-takers from Rostov detention center to up to 29 years
- 2026-09-04Two Yabloko Duma candidates detained in Moscow two days before vote
- 2026-09-03British man says Russian police beat him, jumped on his head at station in Yessentuki
Source: this person’s record in the OVD-Info political persecution database
Published under CC BY 3.0. The criteria for treating a person as politically persecuted belong to OVD-Info; FACTUM relays their assessment and makes none of its own.
OVD-Info has been designated an «extremist» organisation in Russia — by decision of the Russian authorities, like other independent human rights and media projects.