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Stepan Makarov
Biography
A resident of Angarsk. He was prosecuted for incitement to terrorism because of a comment left in May 2024 in a Telegram messager calling for violent actions against a Russian state official. On 12 February 2025, the court sentenced him to a fine of 400,000 rubles. In June, on appeal, the fine was changed to a five-year sentence in a general regime penal colony.
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