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.
