Overview
- Prosecutors had sought a seven-year term, but the court ordered six years in a penal colony.
- Udalzow has been held in pretrial detention since January 2024 and was convicted under secrecy that obscures the evidence.
- He earlier said he is accused over online support for Marxist activists, though the specific allegations remain classified.
- The case followed his article about a Marxist circle in Ufa that the FSB labels a terrorist group, whose members received 16 to 22 years this month.
- Authorities have increasingly used “justification of terrorism” charges since 2022 to curb dissent, even as Udalzow is a Putin critic who previously served prison time after the 2011–2013 protest movement.