Chichvarkin Evgeniy Aleksandrovich

In March 2025, the prosecutor's office in Moscow initiated a criminal case against businessman Yevgeny Chichvarkin. He was accused of evading the performance of duties as a 'foreign agent'. According to the prosecutor's office, Chichvarkin, having been twice in one year brought to administrative responsibility for violating the procedure for the activity of a foreign agent, from March 4 to 12, 2025, being outside of Russia, continued to distribute materials on the video hosting service without indicating the status of "foreign agent. The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation recognized Chichvarkin as a foreign agent in June 2022. In 2023 and 2024, the Moscow court fined him under protocols for violating the activities of a "foreign agent." Since late 2008, Chichvarkin has been living in Great Britain. From 2009 to 2011, he was wanted in a criminal case concerning the kidnapping of Andrey Vlaskin, a former expeditor of "Euroset, which ended with an acquittal. On July 10, 2025, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia announced that the businessman was wanted. 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.