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Zaitsev Igor Nikolaevich

Date of birth: July 20, 1968 (58 years old)
citizenship: Россия
City of residence: Saint Petersburg
Occupation: наука; образование и педагогика
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.3 ч. 1
Pursuit stage:  preliminary investigation
Date of arrest:  August 12, 2026
Current location:  Remand Prison No. 1, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast
Lists of persecuted:  General list

Igor Zaitsev, a resident of St. Petersburg, holds a PhD in Philosophy and is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at the Dostoevsky Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities. He was detained on August 12, 2026. The following day, a court ordered him to be held in pretrial detention on charges of financing the activities of an extremist organization.

According to the investigation, between August 5, 2021, and February 5, 2022, Zaitsev made seven transfers totaling 3,500 rubles to the account of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).

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