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Sergey Lavrov
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A resident of Lipetsk. At the end of May 2015, a case was initiated against him for incitement to extremist activity due to a YouTube video that suggested joining the "Chapayev special forces". Lavrov's flat was searched, during the search FSB officers informed him that his case would be handled by investigators from Krasnodar, due to it Lavrov assumed that he would be asked to testify against Kuban activist Darya Polyudova. In addition, during the search he was told that a second criminal case could be initiated against him for helping Polyudova. Lavrov was also charged with insulting a
A resident of Lipetsk. At the end of May 2015, a case was initiated against him for incitement to extremist activity due to a YouTube video that suggested joining the "Chapayev special forces". Lavrov's flat was searched, during the search FSB officers informed him that his case would be handled by investigators from Krasnodar, due to it Lavrov assumed that he would be asked to testify against Kuban activist Darya Polyudova. In addition, during the search he was told that a second criminal case could be initiated against him for helping Polyudova. Lavrov was also charged with insulting a representative of the authorities. On 18 September 2015, Lavrov was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for a sanity examination. While Lavrov was in the hospital, an FSB investigator came to him and brought a resolution to initiation a case of incitement to extremist activity for reposting a publication by Kuban activist Darya Polyudova, which became one of the grounds for initiating a case against her of incitement to extremist activity. On 29 September 2016, Lavrov got a one-year suspended sentence and amnestied.
On 5 June 2019, Lavrov was detained in a new criminal case of incitement to terrorist activity. He was placed under house arrest. On 29 May 2020, Lavrov was sentenced to five years in a general regime colony. Presumably, he was released in the autumn of 2024.
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