Pilov Ivan Nikolayevich
Pilov Ivan Nikolayevich
St. Petersburg resident Ivan Pilov, who worked as a security chief at a restaurant chain, was charged with three online publications posted between 2021 and 2023. Investigators deemed his comments and social media posts as calls for extremism and justification of terrorism. After his arrest in September 2025, Pilov was placed under house arrest. On February 3, 2026, the court sentenced him to 6 years in a general regime penal colony and remanded him in custody in the courtroom.