Andrei Voronin

Born in Toliatti, a blogger. He lived in Moscow and the Nizhnii Novgorod region. He was repeatedly prosecuted. According to the project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial", based on scattered data and texts, on 27 March 2020, he built three bonfires on his home territory (apparently in the Nizhnii Novgorod region), and when the head of the village council and an employee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived, he swung a poker at the first and berated the second. This incident gave rise to a case of threat of violence and insulting representatives of the authorities. After that, Voronin was also accused of threatening to commit a terrorist act because of a certain post. It is not known which one, but Voronin occasionally published posts with rather radical statements. On 4 April 2020, he was searched, and a packet of gunpowder was found. Voronin claimed that it had been planted on him. On 15 April 2021, he was sentenced in the case with all these charges to 12 years in a strict regime colony. It is possible that the case also included an article on the violation of the rules of road traffic and the operation of vehicles, but the details of the relevant charge are unknown. Voronin's case file in the cassation court does not contain this article, which allowed the project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" to conclude that the article appeared in the case file of the first instance court by mistake. It is also possible that this charge was excluded from the case at some stage. On 28 April 2022, the cassation court reduced the prison sentence by two months.

When Voronin was already in the colony, a case was opened against him for disorganising the work of the institution: according to the investigation, he went on hunger strike, after which he used violence against the deputy head of the security department. On 30 July 2024, Voronin was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, and taking into account the remaining time from the previous sentence, to nine years in a strict regime colony.

A third case was initiated against him under articles on spreading "fakes" about the Russian army and justifying terrorism because of conversations with cellmates about the war in Ukraine. According to cellmates' denunciations, Voronin said that to stop the war in Ukraine, "Putin should be shot" and called him a Nazi. In July 2025, the court began hearing the case. At one of the sessions, one of the prisoners who testified against Voronin, Dmitrii Ivanov, said that the staff of the colony administration wanted to make Voronin talk enough for a new term and falsified the charges, and he, Ivanov, agreed to incriminate Voronin and signed the necessary testimony without looking. On 17 July, the court sentenced Voronin to six years of imprisonment; taking into account the previously imposed sentence, he was sentenced to ten years, of which three years should be spent in prison and the remaining term in a strict regime colony.