A resident of Sevastopol became a defendant in the case of calls to violence in Telegram

FSB officers detained a resident of Sevastopol born in 1976, involved in extremism on the Internet. This was reported in the press service of the FSB in the Crimea and Sevastopol.

According to the intelligence service, the man posted comments on Telegram with calls for violent actions against a group of individuals identified by nationality. The materials were placed in open access on a personal page.

A criminal case was opened under part 2 of article 280 of the criminal code of the Russian Federation – public calls for extremist activities using information and telecommunication networks.

The sanction of the article provides for a punishment of up to five years in prison. The defendant was selected a preventive measure in the form of a subscription not to leave.

In April 2026, the FSB reported the detention of a 35-year-old resident of Kerch, who published online records with insults and calls for violence against citizens of the republics of the Caucasus and Central Asia. The examination confirmed signs of incitement to violence, the man was threatened with up to five years in prison.

In March 2026, a court in Sudak sentenced a local resident who in February 2024 posted an image in social networks calling for violence against people of a certain nationality. He was sentenced to two years in a penal colony and banned from administering websites and doing online activities for two years, and his computer and phone were confiscated.

In February 2026, in Simferopol, a man was sent to a colony-settlement for two years for repeated calls for violence against a group of people on ethnic grounds in social networks; he was also banned from publishing materials on the Internet for two and a half years.