Ostanin Artemiy Romanovich

In Minsk on March 18, 2025, stand-up comedian Artem Ostanin was detained while attempting to leave the country. Belarusian security forces took him to the forest, where they beat him and used a stun gun." Forensic medical examination recorded a spinal fracture in him. Ostanіna was transferred to Moscow. Before handing Ostapenko over to his Russian colleagues, Belarusian security forces gave the comedian a meat grinder. The channel associated with Belarusian security forces that published a photo of Ostanin with his head shaved explained that the meat grinder is a reference to a comedian's joke. Ostanin joked about the fact that in 2025, United Russia members from Murmansk gave meat grinders to the mothers of fallen soldiers on March 8. At the same performance, Ostanin had dreadlocks. Ostanina was accused of inciting hatred or enmity and of humiliating human dignity. According to the investigation, no later than March 15, 2025, during a public speech in Moscow, Ostanin made hostile and insulting comments about a participant in the 'special military operation' and individuals who sustained injuries. The reason was a joke in which he told how in the subway a person without legs ran over his leg, whom the comedian called a "legless skater, suggesting that he "blew himself up on a mine. The recording of the performance was published online on the YouTube channel "third channel", which is associated with the Moscow "Standup Club No. 1" - this recording is currently unavailable. I was walking through the underpass, not bothering anyone. I feel: someone is stepping on my leg. I turn around and say, 'Can you be more careful?' — but there's no one behind me. I throw a glance down, and there sits this legless skater. He still looks at me as if I parked in a disabled parking spot. I couldn't find anything better than to lean over to him and say: 'Well, don't drive so hard.'", At that moment, a granny materialized behind me, who started screaming that I was a rude person." And why the fuck am I being rude in this situation? I was literally hit by a car in the subway. The dude blew himself up on a mine, decided to give a "corner" in the subway, and I was a jerk at the same time, Ostanin said at a concert. The pro-government movement "Zov Naroda" accused the comedian of "mocking a disabled person who may have lost his legs in the special operation zone." 5. Ostanin himself claimed that the joke was about a beggar he had seen in the metro many years ago and had nothing to do with participants in combat operations. On March 19, 2025, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow sent the defendant in the case to a pre-trial detention center. February 4, 2026, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow found Artemy Ostanin guilty and sentenced him to 5 years and 9 months in a general regime colony. The court also ordered him to pay 300 thousand. rubles fine and a 3-year ban on administering websites.