Gudkov Dmitriy Gennadevich

In October 2023, it became known about the initiation of a criminal case for 'fakes' about the Russian army against politician Dmitry Gudkov. The reason for it was a video titled "What did Putin's war in Ukraine lead to?", published on April 29, 2022. In the video, the politician summarizes the results of two months of war and says that the Russian army is deliberately shooting at residential buildings and railway stations in Ukrainian cities, as well as massacring civilians. The politician is not in Russia. In December 2023, the Ministry of Internal Affairs put Gudkov on the international wanted list. On February 27, 2024, the Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow chose Gudkov's measure of restraint in the form of detention in absentia. On August 21, 2024, the Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow found Dmitry Gudkov guilty and sentenced him to 8 years of imprisonment in absentia. The court also banned the politician from administering websites on the internet for 4 years. The term of serving a sentence in the form of imprisonment is calculated from the moment of Gudkov's extradition to the territory of the Russian Federation, or from the moment of his detention on the territory of the Russian Federation. On November 19, 2024, the Moscow City Court upheld the verdict. 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.