The Sverdlovsk District Court of Kostroma sentenced Vladislav Sinitsa to 2.5 years in prison, accused of calling for extremism, including on the Internet (parts 1 and 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). Sota reports this.
The state prosecutor requested four years and ten days in a maximum security colony for Sinitsa.
Sinitsa was serving a five-year sentence in the case of inciting hatred with a threat of violence (clause “a” of part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code). In the summer of 2022, he was transferred from the colony to the Kostroma medical unit. According to investigators, on the very first day there he started talking with other prisoners in the smoking room and suddenly “began to condemn all Russian military personnel who are participating in a special military operation and wish them all to die.”
In addition, Sinitsa they charge at least one more similar conversation in “September-October 2022” — the investigation has not established its exact date. Sinitsa’s statements are known only from the words of other prisoners; he himself insists that they slandered him.
Another episode of the case concerns “extremist” tweets, which Sinitsa, according to investigators, wrote from a mobile phone while in the medical unit. He denies authorship and insists that other prisoners also used the phone.
According to investigators, Maxim Pankrashkin, convicted of attempting to sell drugs on a particularly large scale, helped Sinitsa get the phone; he later testified against him and was released early. In the fall of 2022, the administration of the medical unit transferred Pankrashkin and Sinitsa to a double ward; the case file contains wiretapping of their conversations. At the same time, the court, at the request of the FSB, authorized wiretapping of the phone that Pankrashkin obtained. At least once the head of the colony’s operational unit was called from this number. Sinitsa’s lawyer, Ivan Tamarov, pointed out in the debate that the IMEI of this phone was mentioned in the court ruling a month and a half before the device was “found” during a search in the ward.
“If you fuck me, I won’t leave even after 2024.” Vladislav Sinitsa is already receiving a second term — according to the FSB, he again wrote a tweet about the children of security forces
At the same time, one of the tweets that Sinitsa was accused of verbatim repeated the entry because of which in 2019 the first case was filed against him case: “They will look at cute happy family photos, study geolocation, and then the child of a valiant defender of law and order simply does not come home from school one day. Instead of a child, a CD with a snuff video arrives in the mail. It’s like you’re living your first day in the world asking such questions!”
Sinitsa wrote this tweet at the height of protests over the Moscow City Duma elections, which were brutally dispersed by security forces. In court, he insisted that he did not call for killing children, but only argued that state violence could cause retaliatory terror.
In 2019, he was sentenced to five years in prison, his term of imprisonment expired on July 1, 2024.