Overview

• Security officials say cases were opened under Article 278 and parts 1–2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code, with a separate Article 205.2 count naming Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
• The FSB lists 22 Anti‑War Committee figures as subjects, including Mikhail Kasyanov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kara‑Murza, Dmitry Gudkov, and others.
• Investigators point to the 2023 “Berlin Declaration” as advocating the liquidation of Russia’s current authorities and cite AKR involvement in a PACE‑linked platform this October.
• The service published materials describing the Anti‑War Committee as an unregistered émigré platform formed in 2022 by politicians, academics, journalists, and businesspeople opposing the invasion of Ukraine.
• TASS reports potential penalties of up to 20 years for violent seizure of power and up to life imprisonment for organizing a terrorist community, with investigative actions described as ongoing.