Purbotsyren Sangadeev

A resident of Zabaikalsky Krai, he worked as a security guard in Irkutsk Oblast. In January 2026, he was detained on a train when he was returning to Chita. In a letter from the detention centre, Sangadeev said that his phone was taken from him and his comments were opened in front of him, in which he "justified" the activities of the Freedom of Russia Legion, the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Siberian Battalion, and expressed "disrespect for the USSR and the Victory Day holiday". On 26 January 2026, he was taken into custody on charges of publicly justifying terrorism and denying the USSR's role in World War II. In April 2026, the FSB circulated a video in which a man with a blurred face, answering questions from a person behind the scenes, says that he advocated decolonisation of the Russian Federation and independence of Buryatia, and that he said that the USSR won World War II "not by its own efforts" and that St George's ribbons should be destroyed. The report on his detention said that he supported a certain Ukrainian terrorist organisation.