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Gniteev Aleksandr Petrovich

Date of birth: November 12, 1986 (39 years old)
citizenship: Россия
City of residence: Yekaterinburg
Article of the Criminal Code:  275 ; 282.3 ч. 1
Form of repression:  pre-trial detention
Pursuit stage:  preliminary investigation
Sentence:  8 лет лишения свободы
Date of sentencing:  May 18, 2012
Current location:  Remand Prison No. 1, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Sverdlovsk Oblast
Lists of persecuted:  General list

Aleksandr Gniteev is a resident of Yekaterinburg and a former employee of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise NPO Avtomatiki named after Academician Semikhatov.

In 2012, he was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment under the article on high treason. According to the prosecution, he had passed classified information concerning the control system of the Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile to a foreign intelligence service. He was released in 2018 after completing his sentence.

Reportedly, in May 2026, Gniteyev was remanded in custody on charges of financing extremist activity for making donations to Aleksei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).

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