Sergei Kovtoniuk

A resident of Murmansk. In March 2024, he was taken into custody on charges of publicly justifying terrorism over a song he had posted on his VKontakte page in October 2022. According to him, at that time, as a result of conversations with relatives living in Ukraine, “he had formed a false view of what was happening, of reality”, but since then his opinion had changed. On 7 August 2024, Kovtonyuk was sentenced to three years in a general-regime penal colony.