Grigoryan Gagik Gegamovich

On October 3, 2023, in Kursk, a 17-year-old activist, member of the board of the Russian Social Democratic Youth Union, and participant in 'Left Socialist Action' Gagik Grigoryan was detained. He was accused of preparing a terrorist attack as part of a group of persons by prior conspiracy and storing explosives. According to the version of the security forces, Grigoryan participated in the preparation for the liquidation of Lieutenant Colonel of the Russian Army A.N. Galya, who died on September 24, 2023, during a drone attack on the Kursk - Vostochny airfield. For the duration of the investigation, the court placed the activist in a pre-trial detention center, after which he was transferred from Kursk to Moscow. Later, charges were added for treason, participation in a terrorist organization, and smuggling of explosives." The teenager himself later said that he was detained not at the scene of the alleged crime, but near his own home. Unknown assailants attacked him, forcibly put him in a car, beat him, and took his phone. A device resembling an explosive device was installed in his shoe, and they began to beat him on the head, demanding "to do as we say; if you don't do as we say, we will kill your family, sister and brother, and blow you up: you will do as we say!" Gagik was forced to give his consent to "cooperate, after which he was forced to get into a taxi, they arrived at the "crime scene, where they forced the teenager to take explosives out of some hole, filming the entire process on camera, and immediately "detained" him red-handed. Gagik Grigoryan reacted emotionally and openly to the deaths of civilians in Ukraine due to Russia's military actions. 29 January 2025, the 2nd Western District Military Court found Gagik Grigoryan guilty and sentenced him to 7 years in a general regime colony and a fine of 40 thousand. rubles. The judge Kyforenko ruled to acquit Grigoryan on the charge of smuggling an explosive device, but found him guilty on all other charges. On May 19, 2025, the Appellate Military Court left the sentence unchanged.