A native of Uzbekistan was convicted in Rostov-on-Don for calling for attacks on Moscow.
A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Ruslan Useinov to 6.5 years in prison for three comments on a messenger.
The Southern District Military Court has been hearing Ruslan Useinov's case since early March. He was charged with public propaganda or justification of terrorism via the internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code), which carries a sentence of five to seven years in prison.
According to the prosecution, Useinov published calls for terrorism online three times in 2025. He left the comments "on one of the open anti-Russian channels on a messenger," the court's press service reported on May 21.
Commenting on a news publication on the channel on February 26, 2025, Ruslan Useinov called for missile strikes on Russian territory. A month later, on March 29, he again wrote a comment on the same channel calling for missile strikes, this time "against the population" of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Two months later, on May 26, he "posted a separate text comment," again calling for missile strikes on Moscow, according to a report from the Southern District Military Court.
Useinov fully admitted the charges in court. The court sentenced him to six years and six months in prison, to be served in a general regime penal colony.
Ruslan Useinov's details were added to the Rosfinmonitoring register of terrorists and extremists in December 2025, according to a Telegram bot tracking list updates. According to the registry entry, Useinov is 55 years old and was born in the Tashkent region of the Uzbek SSR in July 1970.
Caucasian Knot has not yet received any comments from the accused or his lawyer regarding the verdict or plans to appeal.
"Caucasian Knot" reported that courts in southern Russia regularlysentence local residents to prison terms for social media posts. For example, in April, a court in Rostov-on-Donsentenced Dagestani resident Ramazan Musayev, finding him guilty of inciting terrorism for publishing materials endorsing the activities of militants. It is impossible to determine the actual number of such sentences, since not all cases of justification of terrorism are included in the public records of the courts.