Kalmyk activist Vladimir Dovdanov* announced wanted

The police have put on the wanted list Vladimir Dovdanov, a Kalmyk activist, who has fled Russia, and is accused of calling for undermining the state security.

On March 4, 2024, it became known that Vladimir Dovdanov, a deputy chairman of the Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk People**, who is now in Lithuania, became a suspect within a criminal case about public calls for activities against the Russia's state security.

According to the "Mediazona"*, in 2022, Dovdanov said that he had to leave Kalmykia for Lithuania. "I am a pensioner, an honoured person, but it is impossible to turn a blind eye to this injustice that Russia is committing," he is quoted as saying.

Let us recall that on August 16, 2023, Dovdanov was fined for calls for violating Russia's territorial integrity. On August 18 of the same year he was added to the register of foreign agents.

*Included by the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) into the register of foreign agents.

**In September 2023, it became known about the decision of the Supreme Court of Kalmykia to recognize the Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk People as an extremist organization and to ban its activities in Russia.