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Istomin Grigoriy Vasilyevich

Date of birth: August 20, 1988 (37 years old)
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  currently serving a sentence
Sentence:  23 года лишения свободы в колонии строгого режима, из них 7 лет в тюрьме, 2 года ограничения свободы, штраф 233.000 рублей
Date of sentencing:  September 9, 2024
Current location:  unknown

Grigoriy Istomin from the Nizhneserginsky District of the Sverdlovsk Region was detained in January or February 2023. He was accused of being an opponent of the war in Ukraine and, together with Ivan Simonov, setting fire to relay cabinets for money and planning further arsons. Istomin was sentenced to 23 years for committing a terrorist attack by a group of persons and attempting to commit such an attack.