A Sochi court has sent a sixth-grader to a temporary detention center for allegedly plotting a terrorist attack.

The Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi has ordered a 13-year-old teenager to be held in a temporary detention center for juvenile offenders for up to 30 days for plotting to commit a terrorist attack on the grounds of his school.

According to the court, the sixth-grade student, born in 2013, began preparing to commit a terrorist attack at his school in January 2026. The teenager discussed a possible method for committing the crime and the details of his preparations with like-minded individuals in a Telegram group, where, among other things, videos of similar crimes and recommendations for their commission were published, the press service of the Krasnodar Krai courts reported today on their Telegram channel.

According to the case materials, the minor believed that this would resolve a conflict with his classmates. At the same time, it is noted that he did not realize that the planned actions were criminally punishable.

The court hearing was held behind closed doors, the press service clarified.

"After reviewing the materials, the court decided to place the minor in the Temporary Detention Center for Juvenile Offenders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Krasnodar Krai for up to 30 days," the statement said.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that on February 11, one person was killed and three were injured as a result of shooting near a technical school in Anapa. The shooter was a student and was detained.

In recent years, many minors have been charged under terrorism-related charges, according to human rights activists and a lawyer. On January 7, the FSB and the Investigative Committee of Russia announced the arrest of a 16-year-old resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, accused of plotting an attack on police officers in Nalchik on behalf of a representative of a terrorist organization. In December 2025, it was reported that a court in Astrakhan had sent a 13-year-old boy to a temporary detention center for juvenile offenders. After his arrest, he said he was planning a terrorist attack in Dagestan. According to the court, the child was assembling a homemade explosive device at home and had previously corresponded with a representative of the Islamic State terrorist organization, which is banned in Russia. On May 19, 2025, nine people, including eight teenagers, suspected of plotting attacks on police officers were taken into custody in Stavropol Krai. Some of the teenagers told security forces that they swore an oath to a terrorist organization without understanding the meaning. "He came up to me and my brother and said, 'You must repeat after me.' We repeated after him, and after we repeated, he said we had sworn an oath," said one of the detainees.

As a reminder, in October 2025, it became known that an 11th-grade student from a school in the Dagestani village of Khuchni was arrested on suspicion of participating in a terrorist organization.

The Dagestani student's relatives considered him a victim of provocation. Analysts agreed that the investigation's version of events is questionable and requires objective confirmation. "The increasing number of cases of persecution of teenagers on terrorist charges, including in Dagestan, are, in my opinion, part of the anti-people, criminally ordered policy of Russia's enemies who have infiltrated Russia's state authorities," said Amir Kolov, a colonel in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and a candidate of legal sciences.