Zimin Boris Dmitrievich

In Moscow, no later than September 2021, a criminal case was opened against businessman Boris Zimin. He was accused of fraud. According to the investigation, from February 2017 to October 2019, Zimin, together with accomplices, organized the theft of 100% of the shares of the company "Brainston" worth 367 million rubles. These shares were the only asset of the company owned by a foreign citizen. The case is also related to a deal for the alienation of shares of the car-sharing company BelkaCar Ltd. Boris Zimin left Russia in 2004. He lives in the United Kingdom. He was put on the wanted list. On April 22, 2025, the Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow found Boris Zimin guilty and sentenced him in absentia to 9 years in a general regime penal colony. On July 7, 2025, the Moscow City Court left the verdict unchanged. 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.