A resident of Sochi is under investigation due to comments in a messenger

A resident of Sochi faces up to seven years in prison for comments in a messenger that investigators deemed justifications for terrorism. The man has been detained.

The accused is 36 years old, and the case against him was initiated by the staff of the Krasnodar FSB. The Sochi resident is charged with justifying terrorism on the internet (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of Russia), which provides for a prison sentence of five to seven years.

According to the prosecution's version, the man, while in Sochi, left comments in the messenger from December 2025 to April 2026 that “became accessible to an unlimited number of people.” Law enforcement concluded that the content of these comments justifies terrorism, reported the Telegram channel of the regional Investigative Committee.

Searches were conducted at the accused's home, and law enforcement seized his mobile devices. “During the interrogation, the accused admitted his guilt,” the agency claims.

In a short operational video recording, the investigator reads the man the detention order in a criminal case. The man, whose face is hidden in the recording, answers affirmatively to the question of whether he agrees with the detention, after which handcuffs are put on him.

The investigation does not specify what exactly the comments of the Sochi resident were about. The agency also does not disclose the man's name or occupation and does not inform what preventive measure has been chosen for him.

Between October 5 and 9, the data of 36-year-old Sochi native Levon Markaryan was added to the register of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring. He is the only one from Kuban in this update, but there is currently no confirmation that the message from the Investigative Committee refers to him, notes the Kuban publication "Protocol."

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that in September, a court in St. Petersburg sent lawyer Nurdie Shamaev from Chechnya to a pre-trial detention center, seeing justification for terrorism in his comment. Shamaev himself did not plead guilty.