Igor Sanjiev

A resident of Kalmykia. In September 2022, Sandzhiev was mobilized into the Russian army on the very same day he went to the military enlistment office to verify his personal data. At the military unit, his passport was confiscated, and his request to be transferred to alternative civilian service was denied. In January 2023, Sanjiev fled to Belarus, from where he was expelled and then detained in Moscow before being sent to the military commandant's office in Volgograd. In March, Sanjiev illegally crossed the border into Kazakhstan, where he applied for refugee status.

Under the article on illegal border crossing, a local Kazakh court sentenced Sandzhiev to six months of suspended imprisonment and ordered his deportation to Russia for five years, citing the rejection of his asylum request as well as his lack of relatives, employment, and permanent residence. On May 25, 2023, the West Kazakhstan Regional Court rejected his appeal.

In Russia, the investigation was resumed in an old case against Sandzhiev concerning battery. Allegedly, he was identified by a man who had been pushed on a street in Elista. In addition, in April 2023, a new case was opened against him for unauthorized abandonment of a military unit.