Uvarov Nikita

Uvarov Nikita

Biography

2022:5 years in prison for plans to blow up the FSB, prepared for the attack in Minecraft

In February 2022, the 1st Eastern District Military Court in the Krasnoyarsk Territory sentenced three schoolchildren from Kansk (Krasnoyarsk Territory), whom the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia accused of preparing explosions in police and special services buildings.

16-year-old teenager Nikita Uvarov (included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring) was sentenced to five years in prison for plans to blow up the FSB building. The young man was accused of undergoing training for the implementation of terrorist activities - he was preparing for the terrorist attack in the computer game Minecraft (construction simulator), the rights to which belong to Microsoft. Such information in his Telegram channel was reported by lawyer Pavel Chikov. He noted that the student was also fined 30 thousand rubles.

Two other defendants Denis Mikhailenko and Bogdan Andreev (also included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring) were released from liability in the "terrorism case," but were assigned 3 and 4 years probation under other articles, respectively. In the last word, Uvarov stated that he did not want to blow up anyone, and he would serve the term, if appointed, "with a pure conscience."

Initially, a criminal case was opened against schoolchildren under a more serious article - on participation in a terrorist community, but it was eventually closed for lack of corpus delicti.

Nikita Uvarov, Denis Mikhailenko and Bogdan Andreev were detained by FSB officers in the summer of 2020 after stickers were pasted on the building of the local FSB with criticism of the state and in support of political prisoners. During interrogations, operatives and investigators found correspondence in their phones in which they discussed the possibility of blowing up a building built in the Minecraft game, similar to the FSB building. This discussion of ways to make homemade firecrackers was the starting point for the prosecution under the article on terrorism.

I believe that five years in prison for a child for correspondence and lack of damage is cruel, "said Vladimir Vasin, a defender of Nikita Uvarova, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora.[1]

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