Roman Chernikov
Biography
In November 2014, he was taken into custody on charges of organising an extremist community and weapons possession (to which he confessed and handed over the weapons during a search); on 20 February 2016, he was released from a pre-trial detention facility. On 23 May, sentenced to two and a half year suspended sentence.
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