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Orshulevich Aleksandr Vladimirovich

Date of birth: November 26, 1987 (38 years old)
Article of the Criminal Code:  205.2 ч. 1 ; 280 ч. 1 ; 282.1 ч. 1
Form of repression:  no prosecution
Pursuit stage:  end of prosecution
Current location:  not in custody
Date of release:  May 26, 2025
Lists of persecuted:  Archive

Orshulevich Aleksandr Vladimirovich, born November 26, 1988, is an opposition nationalist from Kaliningrad.

Sentenced to 8 years in a general regime penal colony with 1 year of restricted freedom and deprivation of the right to administer websites on the Internet for 6 years on charges of committing crimes under Part 1 of Article 205.2 ("Public calls for terrorist activity"), Part 1 of Article 280 ("Public calls for extremist activity") and Part 1 of Article 282.1 ("Organisation of an extremist organisation") of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as part of the case of the "Baltic Vanguard of the Russian Resistance" ("BARS").

Has been in custody since May 27, 2017 to May 26, 2025.