Overview
- The sentence is one year shorter than the seven-year term sought by prosecutors.
- He is to serve the term in a high-security penal colony after being held in pretrial detention since January 2024.
- The precise allegations were kept secret, with local reports linking the case to his writings on Marxist activists convicted in Ufa.
- The 48-year-old declared a hunger strike following the verdict and said he will file an appeal.
- Udalzov led protests against Vladimir Putin in 2011–2013 and, while supporting Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, remains a prominent critic of the Kremlin.