Balazeykin Egor Danielevich

16-year-old student of a St. Petersburg gymnasium, Yegor Balazeykin, was detained in the evening of February 28, 2023, in the city of Kirovsk, Leningrad Oblast. According to law enforcement officials, the teenager threw a Molotov cocktail at the door of the military enlistment office in Kirovske and the Kirov district, but the bottle did not catch fire. On March 1, the teenager was sent to a pre-trial detention center." Initially, a case was opened against Balazeykin under the article on intentional destruction or damage to property, but the charge was later reclassified as an attempt to commit a terrorist act. Subsequently, another two criminal cases were opened against the gymnasium student - due to the arson of the military enlistment office in the Krasnogvardeysky district of St. Petersburg, committed on February 8 and 12. Again, he was charged under the article on intentional destruction or damage to property. On November 22, 2023, the 2nd Western Military District Court found Egor Balazeykin guilty and sentenced him to 6 years in a juvenile correctional colony. Before his 19th birthday, Yegor is to serve his sentence in a juvenile colony, then in a general regime colony. On April 3, 2024, the Appellate Military Court upheld the sentence. In September 2024, the Primorsky District Court of Arkhangelsk Oblast granted the representation of the Arkhangelsk Educational Colony to transfer Balazeykin to a general regime correctional colony due to reaching the age of majority.