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Budalov Boris Gennadevich

Date of birth: October 19, 1989 (36 years old)
citizenship: Россия
City of residence: Yekaterinburg
Occupation: ремонтные услуги
Article of the Criminal Code:  205.2 ч. 2
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Date of arrest:  October 6, 2023
Sentence:  6 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  September 26, 2024
Current location:  Penal Сolony No. 4, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Tyumen Oblast

Appliance repairman Boris Budalov was detained in October 2023 and, following two consecutive short-term administrative arrests, was sent to a pre-trial detention center on charges of justifying terrorism. He was sentenced to 6 years for a single Telegram comment posted under a news item about a freight train derailment in the Bryansk oblast. The comment began with the word "Well done."