Voronin Andrey Olegovich

On April 4, 2020, a criminal case was opened against 29-year-old Andrey Voronin in the Diveyevsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region. July 5, 2025, the Central District Court of Novosibirsk, at the request of the investigation, chose a measure of restraint in the form of detention for the defendants in the case. The reason for the criminal prosecution was a conflict with the head of the village of Glukhovo. According to the investigation, at the end of March 2020, Voronin lit three bonfires on his plot in Glukhovo." Due to violations of fire safety rules - there were wooden structures nearby, and Voronin did not have a fire extinguisher - the head of the village council, Nikolai Kuznetsov, and then the head of the district emergency department, Nikolai Sorokin, came to him to investigate. According to the prosecution's version, Voronin threatened the village head with 'violence' and swung a poker at him, while the rescuer was insulted. A few days after the conflict, on April 3, Voronin wrote on his VKontakte page: 'The operatives and the precinct officer arrived, along with three other people, all in masks, and the operative Lyshenko was even waving his service weapon, standing near the gate and shouting: we'll catch you, come out to the street, you're fucked, I understand, of course, that these are lowlife officers!' "The main thing is that I turned to the prosecutor's office and the investigative committee, there was no response, so it's possible to respond to lawlessness with lawlessness, to open fire on them for destruction, for encroaching on my honor and dignity!", What these scum in shoulder straps are doing, well, faggots, your time is near!" In the post, the experts saw a threat to commit a terrorist attack - including the explosion of FSB buildings and sabotage of strategic facilities. The coronavirus restrictions in this post, the expert report noted, were presented "as a conflict between citizens and law enforcement agencies." It is also claimed that during the search at Voronin's place, almost 500 grams of smokeless gunpowder were found. Experts recognized the substance as an industrial explosive. Voronin himself denied the charges and explained the appearance of the post as a desire to draw attention to the illegal actions of police officers, who after the conflict over the bonfire 'repeatedly came' to him, 'threatened and insulted him,' planted gunpowder on him, and beat him during his arrest. The court sent the man to a pre-trial detention center for the duration of the investigation. 15 April 2021, the 2nd Western Military Court in Moscow found Voronin guilty and sentenced him to 12 years in prison, of which the first 3 years he was to spend in prison, and the rest of the time in a strict regime colony. In addition, the man was fined 50 thousand." rubles. September 8, 2021, the Appellate Military Court left the sentence unchanged. On April 28, 2022, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation reduced the sentence by two months—to 11 years and 10 months—and excluded the punishment for insulting an official from the verdict, because the court of first instance did not specify what percentage of the convict's salary should be withheld for the state. In December 2024, another criminal case was opened against Voronin in the Pskov region. He was accused of calling for terrorism and 'fakes' about the Russian army motivated by political hatred. The reason for the criminal prosecution was conversations with cellmates during the transfer from a prison in the Vladimir region to the Pskov IK-4 - at the end of May and beginning of June 2023, while Voronin was in the Pskov SIZO-1, and already in the colony in quarantine. The prosecution was based on recordings from a hidden camera, which captured Voronin's reflections on the explosions of houses in Moscow and Volgodonsk in the 1990s, Russia's participation in the Syrian war and the invasion of Ukraine: "To stop the war, Putin needs to be shot, the man said on one of the recordings." 2. Voronin himself explained his statements about the war by saying that he learned about the death of relatives under shelling in Ukraine from his grandmother's letter. July 17, 2025, the 1st Western Military District Court found Andrey Voronin guilty and sentenced him to 6 years in a strict regime colony and a fine. Taking into account the previous sentence, the court imposed a final punishment of 10 years in a strict regime colony, the first 3 years in prison.