Mikhail Filatov receives additional 3-year sentence for posts
Mikhail Filatov received an additional sentence for social media posts that justified terrorism and criticized the authorities. His total prison term now stands at 13 years.
Apr 22, 2026 0
Mikhail Filatov«s total prison sentence increased to 13 years after additional conviction for online posts.
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The Southern District Military Court has toughened the punishment for Mikhail Filatov, administrator of the online community «Sober Uryupinsk» from Volgograd Oblast. The court added a term for posts and comments on social networks in which Filatov justified terrorism and criticized the current authorities.
Previously, Filatov had already been convicted for setting fire to the military enlistment office in Uryupinsk (in Volgograd Oblast). The incident occurred on 26 September 2022, when the man propped up the building door with a car and threw incendiary mixtures at it.
«It was established that in September 2022 in Uryupinsk, the defendant decided to commit a terrorist act. Implementing his plan, Filatov found instructions on the Internet for making homemade incendiary devices, purchased the necessary components for making an incendiary mixture of the «Molotov cocktail» type, and made 11 homemade incendiary devices,» the court press service reported. «On the night of 26 September 2022, the defendant drove up to the military enlistment office building, doused the entrance with gasoline, and threw bottles with incendiary mixture at it one after another, having previously ignited them. As a result of Filatov«s actions, the entrance group and premises of the enlistment office caught fire, at that time there were 2 people inside who managed to leave the burning building through a fire escape.»
In October 2023, the Southern District Military Court found Filatov guilty of committing a terrorist act and sentenced him to 12 years in a strict-regime penal colony, with the first three years to be served in prison.
Later, the Federal Security Service (FSB) Directorate for Volgograd Oblast established that in 2022, Filatov had posted publications on his social network page expressing condemnation of the authorities and containing justification of terrorist activities. A criminal case was opened under Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
In this case, the court found Filatov guilty and sentenced him to three years in a penal colony with a ban on administering websites for two years. Combined with the previous crime, the final punishment was set at 13 years of imprisonment: three years in prison, the rest in a strict-regime penal colony, with one year of restricted freedom and a two-year ban on administering internet resources.
The verdict has entered into legal force.
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