Zharikov Mikhail Aleksandrovich

Zharikov Mikhail Aleksandrovich, born November 16, 1984 in the city of Gorky, lives in Nizhny Novgorod, former employee of the press service of the Nizhny Novgorod hockey club "Torpedo", has a minor child in his care.

On October 20, 2023, he was sentenced by the Second Western District Military Court to 6 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony under subparagraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation"), Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public justification of terrorism") and subparagraph "c" of Part 2 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Rehabilitation of Nazism on the Internet"). On May 13, 2024, the Military Court of Appeal reduced the sentence to 5 years and 10 months in a general regime penal colony.

In custody since July 2023.