Shulman Ekaterina Mikhaylovna

A criminal case was opened in Moscow against political scientist Ekaterina Shulman. She was accused of evading the obligations of a 'foreign agent'. According to the investigation, from July to August 2024, Shulman, having previously been held administratively liable for a similar violation, did not mark on her YouTube channel and Teletype account that she is a "foreign agent." Ministry of Justice declared Shulman a "foreign agent" in April 2022. In September and December 2023, the court fined her under reports on the absence of a "foreign agent" mark in publications." In 2022, Shulman moved to Germany for two years as a fellow of the Foundation. Robert Bosch. In March 2025, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that she was wanted, but later the card was removed from the department's database. July 25, 2025, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow issued an in absentia arrest warrant for Shulman. The term of arrest will be calculated from the moment of her detention on Russian territory or extradition. 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."