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Leonid Gozman
Politicians
1950-07-13
Not in Russia
Moscow
Biography
Politician, public figure, psychologist. In the past, one of the leaders of the Union of Right Forces party, then Right Cause. In April 2022, a case was opened against him for failure to notify of foreign citizenship, but it became known only on 15 July. The politician was detained and questioned by the Investigative Committee, after which he was released. Gozman was detained again on 25 July, after which it was reported that he was wanted. However, then he was released, the investigator apologised and said that there had been a mistake. On 30 August Gozman was arrested for 15
Politician, public figure, psychologist. In the past, one of the leaders of the Union of Right Forces party, then Right Cause. In April 2022, a case was opened against him for failure to notify of foreign citizenship, but it became known only on 15 July. The politician was detained and questioned by the Investigative Committee, after which he was released. Gozman was detained again on 25 July, after which it was reported that he was wanted. However, then he was released, the investigator apologised and said that there had been a mistake. On 30 August Gozman was arrested for 15 days under the article on the identification of actions of the USSR and Nazi Germany (part 1 of Article 13.48 of the Administrative Code) because of a post on Facebook. On September 13, he was detained on his way out of the special reception centre and the next day was arrested for the same period under the 2nd part of the same article (repeated offence) because of a post dated 2013. After that Gozman left Russia.
In December 2023, it became known that a case was opened against Gozman for spreading deliberately false information about the Armed Forces. On 11 July 2024, he was sentenced in absentia to eight and a half years in this case.
In January 2025, Gozman was included in the list of extremists and terrorists of Rosfinmonitoring with a mark that is placed with the names of people prosecuted under terrorist articles. Later it became known that a case of public justification of terrorism was opened against him because of his interview in "Bild in Russian" about Ukrainian drone attacks and the explosion on the Crimean Bridge.
On 14 October 2025, the FSB reported about the initiation of a case against Gozman and other members of the Anti-War Committee of Russia for violent seizure of power and organisation of activities of a terrorist community. The reason was the adoption of the "Berlin Declaration" on the need for a change of power in Russia.
On 14 November, the court sentenced Gozman in absentia to ten years in prison in the case of justification of terrorism. The sentence was imposed in conjunction with the punishment in the case of military "fakes".