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Khoroshilov Artem Leonidovich

Date of birth: January 14, 1991 (35 years old)
citizenship: Россия
City of residence: Moscow
Occupation: наука
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Date of arrest:  December 12, 2023
Sentence:  21 год лишения свободы в колонии строгого режима, из них 5 лет в тюрьме, 2 года ограничения свободы, штраф 700.000 рублей
Date of sentencing:  December 4, 2025
Current location:  Prison No. 2, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Vladimir Oblast

Artem Khoroshilov is a Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and a researcher at the General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (part of the Federal Research Center). He was detained in December 2023, nearly a year after his apartment was first searched. Khoroshilov was initially charged with using malicious computer software; a charge of high treason was subsequently added, followed—almost another year later—by charges of preparing for an act of sabotage and the illegal manufacture of explosives. In December 2025, Khoroshilov was sentenced to 21 years of imprisonment.