Artem Konstantinov

Resident of Murmansk, student. In November 2022, Konstantinov said that FSB officers threatened to initiate a criminal case against him for calls to separatism because of several YouTube videos, as well as cases of discrediting the Russian military and allegedly inciting hatred. The young man was detained on 3 June 2022 when he came to the university to take an exam. According to him, they put a bag over his head and put him in a minivan, where they forced him to unlock his phone and started beating him, demanding that he confess to working for the SBU. After that, the law enforcers conducted a search in his flat, which was formally an "inspection of the premises", and handed him an "official warning" about the inadmissibility of state treason. Konstantinov was then taken to the FSB for questioning, where he was asked about his correspondence with his friend from Ukraine. On 20 March 2023, Konstantinov's friend told OVD-Info that Konstantinov had not been in touch for two months. Later it became known that the student was accused of high treason. According to the version of the investigation, he came into contact with the Ukrainian special services and fulfilled their tasks. On 1 October 2024, Konstantinov was sentenced to 13 years in a strict regime colony.