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Mikhailov Sergei Sergeevich

Date of birth: August 1, 1976 (49 years old)
citizenship:  Россия
Occupation: журналистика
Article of the Criminal Code:  207.3 ч. 2 para. «д»
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Sentence:  8 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  August 30, 2024
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 5, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Altai Krai

Mikhailov Sergei Sergeevich, born August 1, 1976. He is a resident of the city of Gorno-Altaisk, Altai Republic. Founder and columnist for the opposition weekly "Listok", member of the federal political council of the democratic party "Parnas". He has a minor child and he is in an unregistered marriage.

On August 30, 2024, he was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony under paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as well as containing data on the exercise by state bodies of the Russian Federation of their powers outside the territory of the Russian Federation for reasons of political hatred").

In custody since April 13, 2022.