Smirnov Aleksandr Mikhaylovich

In Moscow in June 2024, a criminal case was opened for public calls for terrorism and the distribution of pornography against 43-year-old Doctor of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor of the FSIN Institute's NIC-2 Alexander Smirnov. According to the investigation, Smirnov spoke out against the conduct of the special military operation and posted a call for terrorist activity in the "status" section of the WhatsApp messenger: the phrase "Putin will die. Three of his colleagues wrote a denunciation against him. In his own opinion, Smirnov's actions do not fall under the article on calls for terrorism, since. 'the word should not be understood as a call to murder,' and its form can be understood as 'will die of old age.'", In addition, a status in a messenger is not a public statement, because the status could only be seen by those who added him to their contact list. Smirnov's accusation of publicly disseminating pornography is related to the fact that he 'sent a friend a couple of photos of his love affairs.'", Details are unknown. On June 11, 2024, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow granted the prosecution's motion to choose Smirnova's measure of restraint in the form of detention. On September 16, 2025, the 2nd Western Military District Court found Alexander Smirnov guilty, the amount of punishment is unknown."