Case History
In early 2025, the Investigative Committee of the city of Ozersk in the Chelyabinsk region opened a criminal case against Yevgeniy Cherepanov, Oleg Preobrazhenskiy, Igor Smolnikov and Artem Repin. Their homes were searched. Security forces used physical violence and threats against some of the men. On the same day, four believers were detained and placed in the Zlatoust pretrial detention center. All of them were charged with organizing the activities of an extremist organization.