The Supreme Court has designated the “Anti-War Committee of Russia” as a terrorist organisation.

The Supreme Court, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, has banned the activities of the “Anti-War Committee of Russia” on Russian territory, reports SOTAvision.

The hearing was held behind closed doors. The decision was handed down by Judge Oleg Nefyodov, who had previously designated the non-existent “International LGBT Social Movement” and “International Satanism Movement” as extremist organisations.

In its lawsuit, the Prosecutor General’s Office claimed that the movement was established “with the aim of violently seizing power and changing the constitutional order in the Russian Federation.”

• The “Anti-War Committee” was formed in February 2022, after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. Its members include politicians Vladimir Kara-Murza, Mikhail Kasyanov, Dmitry Gudkov and Garry Kasparov; artist Maria Alyokhina; political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann; economists Sergei Guriev and Sergei Aleksashenko; businesspeople Boris Zimin, Evgeny Chichvarkin, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and other opponents of the Russian authorities and the war in Ukraine.
• In October 2025, the FSB announced that a criminal case had been opened against members of the “Anti-War Committee” under articles on the violent seizure of power (Article 278 of the Criminal Code), and on organising and participating in a terrorist community (Parts 1 and 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code).