Overview
- The court granted the General Prosecutor’s suit to recognize and prohibit the group under Russia’s anti-terror legislation.
- Officials said the hearing was closed to media and the public, and the decision is subject to immediate enforcement.
- Prosecutors assert the organization presents itself as a government in exile that seeks a violent seizure of power, citing prior terrorism-related convictions of affiliated members.
- The body was founded in Poland in 2022 by former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomaryov, who resides abroad and was sentenced in absentia in 2024 to 10 years.
- The group was labeled undesirable in Russia in 2023, and Ponomaryov has been designated a foreign agent and placed on wanted lists.