Anton Voronin
- Criminal Code
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Extremism casesCases against Navalny/ACF supporters
- Region
- Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
- City
- Nizhny Novgorod
- Address for letters
- 607683, Нижегородская область, Кстовский р-н, поселок Дружный, ФКУ СИЗО-2 УФСИН России по Нижегородской области ("Дружный"), Воронин Антон Алексеевич, 1988 г.р.
Case summary
A resident of Nizhnii Novgorod. He was detained on 24 February 2026 after a search. According to him, when he opened the flat door, he was thrown on the floor, kicked on the head and on the body with a stun gun, forced to lie in his underwear at the open balcony door with a cloth in his mouth. Then in the car they put him on the floor and put their feet on him. The next day Voronin was taken into custody on charges of participation in the activities of an extremist organisation. The reason was the posts in his Telegram channel "Alan Grant - Science with Journalism": a repost of a publication about the creation of the American legal entity of the ACF and, presumably, other reposts. The ruling on bringing Voronin as a defendant actually mentions one publication: the named above repost, as well as the original post from Alexei Navalny's channel, which Voronin reposted on his channel.
Others charged under Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
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