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01Overview
Quick Facts
CountryRussia
Age / Sexmale
Occupation—
Arrested inSaint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg
Held at—
CategorySocial media
StatusConvicted
Sentence—
Russia · context
1,245documented cases
387 urgent · 76 report torture
Most common grounds
Journalism
125
Unknown
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Cultural
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Ethnic
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Case Summary
Andrei Tishchenko, a resident of St. Petersburg, received a suspended sentence of 2.5 years for rehabilitating Nazism. The charges stemmed from a satirical text he posted online comparing referendums in occupied territories to a hypothetical referendum during the siege of Leningrad.
Key Facts
03 entries- 01Received suspended sentence of 2.5 years.
- 02Prosecuted for satirical text about referendums.
- 03Text compared situation in LNR/DNR to a hypothetical referendum during the siege of Leningrad.
02Charges
Charges
01 count- 01Nazism rehabilitation
Criminal Code Articles
02 articleArt. 354.1Art. 354.1
03Analysis
Predicting Vector
Surveillance vector
Surveillance vectorSocial Media Monitoring
Inferred demographics
90%EthnicitySlavic Russian
Region of originSlavic Russia
ReligionOrthodox Christian
The name Andrei Tishchenko is a common Slavic Russian name, and the arrest location is a major Russian city.
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Cite this case
Political Prisoner Watch. (2026). Case file: Andrei Tishchenko (PPW case cmgoiskq, record version 2026-05-26). Retrieved July 16, 2026, from https://politicalprisonerwatch.org/prisoners/cmgoiskqd002llizyqmkghu2w. Original data from OVD-Info (https://repression.info/ru/persons/andrei-tishchenko).
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