Gregory Marcus Severin Vinter

Former name - Grigory Winter. He lived in Cherepovets, was the head of the local branch of the movement "For Human Rights". In 2019, he was sentenced to 280 hours of correctional labour - the activist was found guilty of insulting the former mayor of Cherepovets Elena Avdeeva and the current head of the city Margarita Guseva. The court saw the insult in a post on Winter's personal closed page, in which he spoke about the felling of the Pulovsky forest and mentioned the officials. In February 2019, Winter was sent for a compulsory medical examination as part of a criminal case about threats to the court clerk - he allegedly said on 15 October 2018 that he would blow up the courthouse. In 2020, the human rights defender was searched in a criminal case of spreading "fakes about the coronavirus": he wrote in "VKontakte" that on 12 April 2020, prisoners from the Cherepovets pre-trial detention centre were escorted to colonies on a transit train coming from St. Petersburg, with some of those escorted showing "clear signs" of the coronavirus. After the search, Winter was also prosecuted for insulting a representative of the authorities: he was accused of uttering "coarse profanity" to the IC and FSB officers who conducted the search. In December 2020, Winter was placed in a pre-trial detention centre on the pretext that he did not attend court hearings, although he had a sick leave. A month later, a regional court overturned the city court's decision. After being released, Vinter reported torture and beatings. According to the human rights defender, he was kicked by the staff of the duty shift. They also used tasers and strangled him. In March 2021, a court in Cherepovets sentenced the human rights defender to two years of restricted freedom in the case of "fakes" and insulting a representative of the authorities. In August 2021, the Vologda Regional Court commuted this punishment to six months of correctional labour with the deduction of five percent of income in favour of the state. Winter was also prosecuted under the article on contempt of court, according to the information on the website of the Cherepovets city court. He was charged with insulting the judge (part 2 of article 297 of the Criminal Code) and insulting participants of the trial (part 1 of article 297 of the Criminal Code). The court website says that the case was transferred under the jurisdiction, but it is not known how the proceedings ended. Grigory Winter was also subjected to an attack. In March 2018, he was attacked by an unknown person outside his own home. The attacker told Winter, "For the forest." The human rights defender was diagnosed with a head injury, broken ribs and swelling of the right eye. The man believes that the attack was organised by the local authorities because of his involvement in saving the Pulovsky forest.

In September 2022, Winter was placed in custody on a case of knowingly spreading false information about the Armed Forces. Winter reported that at night the temperature in his cell dropped to between 4 and 6 degrees centigrade. He later said that he was deaf in one ear due to the low temperature and that he was running low on insulin. The insulin was then given to him, but Winter continued to write about the lack of medication. On 19 October 2022, he was transferred to house arrest. On 28 October, the Court of Appeal overturned this decision. Later, house arrest was again ordered. Winter also reported that he was humiliated and beaten in the pre-trial detention centre in an attempt to get him to write a statement that he was "put down". At one of the court hearings on the merits of the case, Winter was not allowed to file a complaint with the prosecutor's office against the actions of the SIZO staff.

Winter has 12 cats at home, and while awaiting sentencing, he began giving them away.

On 3 November 2023, house arrest was replaced by a ban on certain actions.

On 18 January 2024, Winter was sentenced to three years in a general regime colony.

On 30 December 2025, Winter was released from prison.