Roman Gribov

A resident of Kostroma, a manager for the sale of car oils. On 2 July 2025, he was detained. According to him, his hands were wrapped with duct tape, a black bag was put on his head and he was forced to unlock his phone. Then he was taken to the FSB department in the Kostroma region, where an officer fixed his hands, poured water on his feet, threw him on the floor, plugged a bare wire into a socket, after which Gribov was tortured with an electric current for an hour and a half. He was then taken for a search, then returned to the FSB, where he was beaten on the kidneys, after which, as he claims, he was given vodka and taken to the police station. At the police station, a policeman in the presence of witnesses suggested that he undergo an examination. Gribov agreed. But then, according to Gribov, the FSB officer demanded him to refuse the examination, and he refused. On 3 July, he was arrested for 13 days under the administrative punishment on refusal of medical examination (Article 6.9 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offences).

On 15 July 2025, a case was brought against him for calls to extremism and terrorism. The charges stemmed from comments about a nuclear explosion in Moscow (in response to political scientist Dmitrii Suslov's arguments about the need for a demonstration nuclear explosion on the territory of Russia) and the execution of prisoners recruited for war.

Gribov's brother said that on 30 December 2025, he found himself in the same cell with an FSB officer who had previously tortured him. Cellmates threatened Gribov with new criminal cases and the fate of neo-Nazi Maksim Martsinkevich, who was found dead in the pre-trial detention centre, if Gribov never confessed guilt. He was kept in this cell until 12 January