A Sevastopol resident was convicted in Rostov-on-Don for promoting terrorism.

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A Rostov-on-Don court sentenced Sevastopol resident Alexander Belyaev to five years in prison for social media posts deemed terrorist propaganda.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Sevastopol resident Alexander Belyaev, finding him guilty of public calls for terrorist activity and terrorist propaganda.

According to investigators, from August 2023 to March 2025, Belyaev posted texts on the social media page he managed. "signs of verbal persuasion aimed at instilling in others the ideology of the banned terrorist organization "Legion of Freedom of Russia" and calls to join terrorist organizations, according to a report published on April 17 on the court's website.

Belyaev was found guilty of committing eight crimes under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls to commit terrorist activity, public justification of terrorism, or propaganda of terrorism on the Internet) and sentenced to five years' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.

Earlier, "Caucasian Knot" reported that on April 16, the Southern District Military Court found Kuban resident Artem Ekimov guilty of three criminal charges for messages in a chat and sentenced him to five years in a general regime penal colony. mode.