Orlov Yuriy Vladimirovich

In Syktyvkar in September 2024, a search was conducted at the home of a local 53-year-old resident, Yuri Orlov, an employee of the pension fund." A criminal case was opened against him for calls to terrorism. The reason for Orlov's criminal prosecution was two of his comments in the chat of the "Polito" project in Telegram. The first comment - "Uibu and Sevastyanov to the furnace" - referred to the results of the elections to the State Duma, the second - "Volodin should be hanged immediately after Putin" - was a response to the quote of the Speaker of the State Duma about "war criminals" supplying weapons to Ukraine. According to the investigation, with his comments, Orlov "maliciously called for actions against official state figures" — the former head of the Komi Vladimir Uyba, deputy Olga Sevastyanova, and Vladimir Putin. Chat, in which Orlov wrote, includes 608 participants. The Syktyvkar resident was placed under a written undertaking not to leave during the investigation. On December 20, 2024, the 1st Western Military District Court found Yuri Orlov guilty and sentenced him to 3 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony. Also, the court prohibited him from administering websites and channels on social networks for two years. On April 9, 2025, the Appellate Military Court left the verdict unchanged. Earlier, Orlova had been tried to be held administratively liable under the article on "discrediting the army. In October 2023, a court in Syktyvkar fined a man for a comment on VKontakte: 'Vladimir, in what is Russia right?'" What is waging a vile, aggressive, aggressive war? Is he bombing peaceful cities in Ukraine?» After Orlov's complaint in December 2023, the Supreme Court of the Komi Republic overturned the fine and terminated the case due to the unproven circumstances of the administrative offense.