Danila Afonin
Engineers
1975-05-01
At large
Pskov
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Resident of Pskov. He teaches massage courses, worked as a municipal engineer, and ran for municipal deputy of the Piskovichiyskaya Volost rural settlement from the "Yabloko" Party branch in the region of Pskov. On 17 January 2024, he was searched and detained as part of a case of discrediting the Armed Forces. The next day the court chose a preventive measure against him in the form of a ban on certain actions. On 20 January 2025, Afonin was sentenced to a year of suspended sentence.
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