Sharlot Eduard Valerevich

The singer Eduard Sharlot, while abroad, burned his Russian passport and stated that he is against the war in Ukraine. In mid-November 2023, he announced his return to Russia to 'fight for Russian-language culture.'", On November 22, 2023, the musician was detained when he flew from Armenia to Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg. At that time, he was charged with an administrative article on petty hooliganism and arrested for 13 days. Two days later, it became known about the initiation of a criminal case under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism and on insulting the feelings of believers. Charlotte was charged with the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism due to a video in his Instagram where he tears a St. George ribbon hung in the shape of the letter Z. Law enforcement officers saw an insult to the feelings of believers in the video where Sharlot nailed his military ID, a photo of Patriarch Kirill, and a cross made of branches to a tree." December 2, 2023, the Kirovsky District Court of Samara placed Sharlot under arrest. At the end of May 2024, incitement of hatred or enmity was added to the charges. The reason for the new criminal prosecution was an Instagram story with the text: "Russian-speaking little bastards, you are dead even when you breathe, which no one saw except the person who made this denunciation. The head of the Federal Project for Security and Anti-Corruption, Vitaly Borodin, complained about the publication. On December 27, 2024, the Samara Regional Court found Eduard Sharlot guilty and sentenced him to 5.5 years in a penal colony-settlement." On April 15, 2025, the Fourth Appellate Court of General Jurisdiction left the verdict unchanged. On August 5, 2025, the Central District Court of Tolyatti granted the representation of the colony-settlement administration and sent Eduard to serve his sentence in a general regime correctional colony. According to the claims of the colony staff, the convict violated the regime requirements and incited other convicts to negatively directed behavior, for which he was repeatedly brought to disciplinary responsibility.