In the Moscow region, a business owner was given a three-year suspended sentence for donating 700 rubles (about US$8) to the Anti-Corruption Foundation.

On 13 May, the Pushkinsky City Court in the Moscow region sentenced 28-year-old business owner Andrey Vorobyov to a suspended sentence on charges of financing extremist activity (part 1, article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). Vorobyov himself told OVD-Info about the verdict.

Vorobyov was convicted for seven donations of 100 rubles each (totaling 700 rubles or about US$8) to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), which he made between August 2021 and February 2022. He was ordered to pay the sum of these donations and had his mobile phone confiscated by the state.

Criminal proceedings against the business owner were opened on 29 December 2025. That same day, he submitted a voluntary confession. During the investigation, Vorobyov said he was drawn to FBK’s anti-corruption ideas and therefore felt it was important to support the organisation.

While the investigation was ongoing, the business owner was under a travel restriction order.

• In June 2021, the Moscow City Court declared FBK and Navalny’s headquarters extremist organisations, and this decision came into force on 4 August of the same year. All donations to FBK sent after that date are classified by the authorities as financing extremist activity. According to Mediazona’s calculations, by April 2026 at least 225 criminal cases had been opened across Russia over donations to FBK.