Sorokin Dmitry Valeryevich
Sorokin Dmitry Valeryevich
Dmitry Sorokin, a native of the Murmansk oblast, was arrested in St. Petersburg in April 2024 and sent to pretrial detention. The criminal prosecution stemmed from posts on his VK page from 2022–2023. The prosecution accused him of inciting extremism, spreading 'fake news' about the army, and justifying terrorism through posts about the war against Ukraine. Sorokin pleaded not guilty, explaining that he had copied the texts for his personal archive, and his page had already been blocked in Russia by that time. However, FSB operatives accessed the posts using a VPN service and recorded views and reactions from other users. The court sentenced Sorokin to eight years in a general regime penal colony.