Overview

• The state prosecutor in Yekaterinburg asked the Kirovsky District Court on September 17 to impose a 600,000‑ruble penalty.
• Volkov, 69, is accused of financing extremism for two 1,000‑ruble transfers to the Anti-Corruption Foundation in August and September 2021 and has pleaded guilty in court.
• He is charged under Criminal Code Article 282.3, which allows three to eight years in prison, though he remains under a travel restriction as proceedings continue.
• Rosfinmonitoring lists both Mikhail and his son Leonid as extremists and terrorists, and the elder Volkov left Ural Federal University in February 2025.
• Courts across Russia have issued large fines in comparable cases, including a 400,000‑ruble sentence in Saransk on September 15 for three donations totaling 3,000 rubles.