Melekhin Leonid Aleksandrovich

In the Perm Territory, no later than October 2024, a criminal case was initiated for public calls for terrorism against 33-year-old local resident Leonid Melekhin. The details of the charges are unknown. Melekhin left Russia in August 2024 and tried to cross the border from Mexico to America. For several months he was held in detention (an immigration prison in the USA), but lost his court cases for the right to reside in America. At that time, Russian authorities put him on the wanted list due to his cooperation with Alexei Navalny's headquarters. A man who had been repeatedly detained at rallies in Perm was deported from the USA to Russia. Today, July 25, Perm activist Leonid Melekhin (who is on the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation), who had been wanted for several years, was sent to a pre-trial detention center, journalist Properm.ru became known." Earlier, he tried to emigrate from Mexico to the United States, about which his friends actively wrote on social networks. Melikhin tried to cross the border of Mexico with America in August last year, spent several months in detention (an immigration prison in the USA), but lost the courts for the right to live in America. All this time, Russian authorities were looking for him for cooperating with Navalny's headquarters (the organization is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia). In July 2025, a man was deported from the USA and handed over to Russian authorities. Malekhina was detained upon arrival in Russia. On July 25, 2025, Judge Oksana Korepanova of the Leninsky District Court of Perm satisfied the investigator's motion from the FSB and sent the defendant in the case to a pre-trial detention center. Prior to leaving Russia and until the end of 2023, Melekhina was repeatedly detained by police for participating in public events.