Personal Information
- Birth date
- 28 янв. 1984 г. (42 years old)
- Special circumstances
- dependent child/children, parent of many children
- Notes
- Five minor children, deprived of parental rights due to allegedly unsatisfactory living conditions of minors. Grandmother, Polina Roots' mother, is raising four children, the youngest girl was placed with a foster family. The spouses believed these actions were unjustified and unfair, engaged in lengthy litigation, recorded and posted video clips on social networks under the general title "How and why children are taken away in Russia. In protest against the seizure of children from the family, they posted a message on their blogs that they refuse Russian citizenship and will use Soviet documents.
Torochkov Vitaliy Viktorovich
Case Information
- Region of case initiation:
- Vologda Oblast
- Detention date:
- 28 сент. 2022 г.
- Charges:
- Art. 205.2 CC RF Part 2, Art. 222.1 CC RF Part 3 cl. a, Art. 223.1 CC RF Part 2
- Sentence:
- 13 years strict regime
- Estimated release date:
- 28 сент. 2035 г.
- Case categories:
- Anti-war case, "Extremist" statements, Justification of terrorism, Freedom of speech
- Rosfinmonitoring status:
- Added 5 окт. 2022 г.
Case Description
The parents of five children from the city of Cherepovets in the Vologda region, Vitaly Torochkov and Polina Roots, were detained in September 2022 on suspicion of publicly justifying terrorism. Chelyabinsk City Court chose a measure of restraint in the form of arrest for both. According to the investigation, Torochkov in February 2022 published a video titled "Russian Passport - Shame and Stigma!" on VK and Telegram, in which the young man burned his passport and said, among other things, Death to Putin. Thus, he "made public calls for the implementation of terrorist activity." "The investigation also claims that Torochkov made an improvised explosive device, which he kept in Roots' apartment with her knowledge." "What messages are being attributed to Roots is unknown, but she, like her husband, actively spoke out on social networks against the invasion of Ukraine. On June 8, 2023, Judge Sergey Krivosheev of the 2nd Western Military District Court sentenced Vitaly Torochkov to 13 years in a strict regime colony, and Polina Roots to 9 years in a general regime colony. October 26, 2023, the Appellate Military Court upheld the sentence.
Co-Defendants (1)
Contact Information
Mailing Address
Торочков Виталий Викторович, 28 января 1984 г. ФКУ ИК-1 УФСИН России по Архангельской области, адрес: 163050, Россия, г. Архангельск, ул. Пирсовая, д. 27 связь через: Зонателеком
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