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Mikhail Smadich
Biography
Resident of Cherkessk. 28 May 2024 taken into custody on charges of involvement in the activities of an extremist organisation in connection with alleged involvement in At-Taqfir Wal-Hijra. Some scholars and human rights activists believe that no such organisation exists. On 27 October 2025, Smadich was sentenced to imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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