Stomakhin Boris Vladimirovich

In Moscow, no later than November 2024, a criminal case was opened for "fakes" about the Russian army on the grounds of political hatred against publicist Boris Stomakhin. The details of the charges are unknown. Stomakhin himself left Russia in November 2019 and asked for asylum in Ukraine. He was placed on the international wanted list. On November 14, 2024, the Butyrsky District Court of Moscow placed Stomakhin under house arrest in absentia. March 27, 2025, the Butyrsky District Court of Moscow found Boris Stomakhin guilty and sentenced him to 10 years in prison to be served in a strict regime penal colony. On March 21, 2006, three plainclothes operatives from the police of the North-Eastern District of Moscow came to Stomakhin's apartment and his mother. After being refused entry into the apartment, they began to break down the door. Stomakhin tried to escape from the apartment by climbing down a rope from the window. The rope broke and Stomakhin fell from the height of the fourth floor. At City Hospital No. 20, where the victim was taken by an ambulance, doctors diagnosed a broken leg and spinous processes of two vertebrae. In late March 2006, he was visited in the hospital by investigator Snezhana Kolobova from the North-Eastern District Prosecutor's Office of Moscow, with materials from a criminal case opened against him in December 2003 under the article "incitement of national, racial, or religious hatred." Stomakhin was transferred to the closed department of the 20th hospital. On July 18, the judge of the Ostankino Court of Moscow S. Kostyuchenko extended Stomakhin's detention for two months. On October 3, 2006, court hearings began in the case of Boris Stomakhin, who was accused of public calls for extremist activity and inciting religious hatred. On November 20, 2006, he was sentenced by the Butyrsky Court of Moscow under part. 2 years "280 ("public calls for extremist activity"), Art. 1 year "Under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("incitement of hatred or enmity"), he was sentenced to five years in prison by partially combining sentences, with a three-year ban on engaging in journalistic activities, to be served in a general regime correctional colony; the sentence was calculated from March 22, 2006. May 23, 2007 1. The Moscow City Court left the sentence unchanged. Stomakhin was sent on transit to prison in Nizhny Novgorod on June 23. He served his sentence in IK-4 pos. A bulldozer in the Nizhny Novgorod region. On February 7, 2008, the Tonshayevsky District Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region denied Boris Stomakhin parole. On September 11, 2008, the same court agreed with the prosecutor's assertion that Stomakhin did not deserve parole, as he did not admit his guilt and did not cooperate with the prison administration. On April 27, 2009, the court for the third time refused Boris Stomakhin parole (UDC). During his imprisonment, which Stomakhin served in full, the court denied him parole five times. Boris Stomakhin was again detained at his apartment on November 20, 2012, on charges of violating the "anti-extremist" articles of the Criminal Code (Articles 282 and 205.2 of the Criminal Code). The detention was carried out on the anniversary of his conviction in 2006. The court sanctioned his detention. The criminal case was initiated on July 10, 2012, but this was not reported anywhere, and Stomakhin did not receive any summons for interrogations until the moment of his detention. The case was initiated based on an appeal from the well-known blogger Roman Nosikov. Stomakhin, who is already serving his second sentence for his journalism, was found guilty under part 1 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public justification of terrorism). He was accused of publishing an article titled "Or blow up a couple of railway stations here!" on Stomakhin's blog on the LJ.Rossia hosting platform on January 18, 2014, dedicated to the explosions in Volgograd in December 2013. The defense of the defendant indicated that at the time of the article's publication on the internet, Boris had an alibi, as he was at that time in custody in SIZO-4 (city of" "Moscow) and did not have the technical ability to post anything on the internet.