Smolyaninov Artur Sergeevich

In Moscow in January 2023, a criminal case was opened against actor Artur Smolyaninov on the orders of Bastrykin. He was accused of inciting hatred or enmity and spreading "fakes" about the Russian army, committed on grounds of political hatred or enmity by an organized group of persons by prior conspiracy. The reason for the persecution was an interview in which Smolyaninov said that he felt "nothing but hatred" for Russian soldiers in Ukraine. On January 6, 2023, the actor gave an interview to the Novaya Gazeta Europe publication in which he said that he was "emotionally" ready to go to war on the Ukrainian side. Honestly, I don't give a damn what form Russia will remain in. 'It will fall apart, it won't fall apart' - Smolyaninov stated. Smolyanynov left Russia after the start of the war. In October 2022, he was fined under the article on "discrediting" the Russian army. On October 29, 2024, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow issued a ruling on the in absentia arrest of the actor. In October 2025, the FSB of Russia opened a criminal case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and members of the 'Anti-War Committee of Russia'. The list of individuals includes Mikhail Kasyanov, Marat Gelman, Leonid Gozman, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Sergey Aleksashenko, Dmitry Gudkov, Sergey Guriev, Boris Zimin, Yevgeny Chichvarkin, Yevgeny Kiselyov, Mikhail Kokorich, Yevgeny Kunin, Elena Lukyanova, Yuri Pivorov, Konstantin Chumakov, Anastasia Shevchenko, Viktor Shenderovich, Garry Kasparov, Kirill Martynov, Maxim Reznik, Artur Smolyaninov, and Ekaterina Shulman. The defendants are accused of violent seizure of power, as well as organizing a terrorist community and participating in it. Separately, Mikhail Khodorkovsky is accused of public calls for terrorist activity. According to the investigation, the aforementioned individuals established the "Anti-War Committee of Russia" movement in February 2022 with the aim of forcibly seizing power and changing the constitutional order in the Russian Federation. 30 April 2023 in Berlin, the movement adopted a founding document - the 'Berlin Declaration', which stated the need to liquidate the current authorities in Russia. In October 2025, with the participation of the movement in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a "platform of Russian democratic forces" was created, which Mikhail Khodorkovsky positions to Western countries as a "constituent assembly of the transitional period" and an alternative to the bodies of power of the Russian Federation. Also, according to the investigation, Khodorkovsky and other founders of 'AKR' finance Ukrainian paramilitary units that are recognized as terrorist organizations in Russia and recruit people into them for the subsequent seizure of power in Russia.