Kasparov Garri Kimovich

The Forum of Free Peoples of Post-Russia took place on December 11, 12, and 14, 2023, in Rome and Berlin. Regional opposition figures spoke at the forum, discussing the prospects for post-colonial and post-war Russia. In mid-December, Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin demanded that a criminal case be opened in connection with statements made at the forum. On April 24, 2024, the Syktyvkar City Court arrested Garry Kasparov, Dmitry Gudkov, Ivan Tyutrin, and Yevgenia Chirikova in absentia. They were accused of financing terrorist activities, publicly justifying them, and creating a terrorist community. The details of the charges are unknown. In early November 2024, it became known that another criminal case had been opened against Yevgenia Chirikova for “publicly justifying terrorism.” According to law enforcement agencies, “no later than August 8, 2023, Chirikova took part in a broadcast on one of the video hosting sites and gave an interview which, according to the conclusion of a linguistic study, contains signs of justifying the activities of a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation.” In October 2025, several more members of the Free Russia Forum Council were added to Rosfinmonitoring's list of “terrorists and extremists”: Boris Golant, Anastasia Kirilenko, Alfred Koch, Alexander Morozov, Nikolai Polozov, Igor Eidman, and Mikhail Krutikhin. The details of their charges are unknown. In October 2025, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) opened a criminal case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and members of the Russian Anti-War Committee. Those involved included Mikhail Kasyanov, Marat Gelman, Leonid Gozman, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Sergei Aleksashenko, Dmitry Gudkov, Sergei Guriev, Boris Zimin, Evgeny Chichvarkin, Evgeny Kiselev, Mikhail Kokorich, Evgeny Kunin, Elena Lukyanova, Yuri Pivovarov, 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 and participating in a terrorist community. Mikhail Khodorkovsky is separately accused of publicly calling for terrorist activity. According to the investigation, in February 2022, these individuals established the “Anti-War Committee of Russia” movement with the aim of violently seizing power and changing the constitutional order in the Russian Federation. On April 30, 2023, in Berlin, the movement adopted its founding document, the Berlin Declaration, which states the need to eliminate the current government 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 before Western countries as a “constituent assembly of the transition period” and an alternative to the authorities of the Russian Federation. Also, according to the investigation, Khodorkovsky and other founders of the “AKR” finance Ukrainian paramilitary units, which are recognized as terrorist organizations in Russia, and recruit people into them for the subsequent seizure of power in Russia.