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Gulimov Valentin Viktorovich

Date of birth: June 2, 1979 (47 years old)
citizenship: Россия
City of residence: Saint Petersburg
Occupation: банковская сфера
Article of the Criminal Code:  205.2 ч. 2
Pursuit stage:  verdict delivered – appeal pending
Date of arrest:  October 8, 2025
Sentence:  7 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  May 18, 2026
Current location:  Remand Prison No. 1, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast

Valentin Gulimov is a bank employee from St. Petersburg and the father of a young child with health issues. Gulimov was sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment for emotional comments posted on Telegram. Law enforcement authorities deemed 3 of these comments to constitute public justification of terrorism—specifically, an endorsement of the activities of the Azov unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine—while another was classified as a public call for terrorist activity, namely the arson of the Russian Embassy in Yerevan.