Fyodor Sidushkin, a native of Yoshkar-Ola and a fourth-year student at the Russian State University of Justice, resided in Moscow and worked in the legal field. He was convicted under a statute concerning the financing of an extremist organization for making a 100-ruble donation to Vladislav Pozdnyakov, the founder of the 'Male State' (Muzhskoye Gosudarstvo) movement. According to the prosecution, Sidushkin made the donation in September 2022, at the age of 18. He maintains that the criminal case against him stems from his attempts to accuse police officers of falsifying documents related to his administrative detention. He had been in custody since February 2026; in June 2026, he was sentenced to two years of compulsory labor and released in the courtroom, with the requirement that he report to a correctional center to serve his sentence once the verdict took legal effect.
