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Shirshikov Yaroslav Yurievich

Date of birth: July 31, 1987 (38 years old)
citizenship: Россия
Article of the Criminal Code:  205.2 ч. 2
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Date of arrest:  January 1, 1
Sentence:  5 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  February 27, 2024
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 2, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Sverdlovsk Oblast

Shirshikov Yaroslav Yurievich, born July 31, 1987, resident of Yekaterinburg, public relations specialist, CEO and founder of Niccolo Machiavelli Research Institute of Political Singularity LLC, father of a minor child. Previously convicted under Part 3 of Article 212 ("Calls for mass riots") and Part 5 of Article 128.1 ("Slander combined with an accusation of a person of committing a grave or especially grave crime") of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. On February 27, 2024, he was sentenced under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public justification of terrorism using the Internet") to 2 years in a general regime penal colony.
In custody from April 18 to June 14, 2023, then taken into custody again in the courtroom on February 27, 2024.

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03 Jun, 2024 | 11:38

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