Ezhov Sergey Aleksandrovich

In Ryazan, no later than March 2025, a criminal case was opened against investigative journalist Sergey Yezhov of The Insider and the "Anti-Corruption Foundation. He was accused of evading the performance of the duties of a foreign agent, financing extremism, and participating in the activities of an extremist organization. The details of the charges are unknown. The Ministry of Justice declared the investigator a "foreign agent" in July 2024. 17 March 2025, a search was conducted in the apartment of his parents, breaking down the door. In early April 2025, investigators requested an in absentia arrest of Yezhov, but the Oktyabrsky District Court of Ryazan denied this request. On April 15, 2025, the Ministry of Internal Affairs put the journalist on the wanted list. On November 1, 2025, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Ryazan found Sergey Yezhov guilty in absentia and sentenced him to 6 years in prison. On August 2, 2004, at 11 a.m. in Moscow, about 30 National Bolsheviks, protesting against the bill on the monetization of benefits, broke into the building of the Russian Ministry of Health on Rakhmanovsky Lane." "Chanting "Free medicine for the people, ministers to the guillotine!", Zubanov is the enemy of the people" (head of the RF Ministry of Health Mikhail Zubanov), For our elderly, we'll cut off ears!", Zubanov, leave on your own!" and other slogans, the national Bolsheviks entered the reception room of Minister Mikhail Zubanov." They were accused of hooliganism. One of the participants in the action was Sergei Yezhov. In December 2004, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced the defendants in the case to 5 years in prison. In early 2006, Yezhova was released from the colony on parole.