Overview

• Russia’s FSB announced charges alleging the creation of a terrorist organization and a plot to seize power, naming former Yukos chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky and more than 20 Anti‑War Committee figures.
• The case includes an additional count against Khodorkovsky for publicly inciting terrorist activity, with terrorism articles carrying potential life sentences under Russian law.
• Those listed include Vladimir Kara‑Murza, Garry Kasparov, Mikhail Kasyanov, Sergei Aleksashenko and Sergei Guriev, with authorities citing the group’s 2023 Berlin declaration and recent Council of Europe platform activity as context.
• The FSB claims the committee’s founders financed Ukrainian paramilitary units and conducted recruitment to support a forcible power grab, assertions the accused reject as false.
• In a separate investigation announced a day earlier, the FSB said it foiled a planned bombing against a senior Defense Ministry officer in Moscow, detained four suspects, and attributed the plot to Ukrainian services working with an Islamic State operative who allegedly delivered a bike bomb via UAV.