The father of FBK director Ivan Zhdanov left the colony – Kommersant

The father of the director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK; recognized in the Russian Federation as an extremist organization, banned and liquidated) Ivan Zhdanov (recognized as a foreign agent), Yuri Zhdanov, left the colony. Since February 2022, he has been serving a sentence in a criminal case for abuse of power.

“For several days now I have had the audacity to call myself a free man. Free is very conditional. There are still three years of “muzzling” ahead—administrative supervision,” he wrote on his Instagram (belongs to Meta, which is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation and is banned).

Yuri Zhdanov was detained in March 2021 in Rostov-on-Don. The court accused him of exceeding his authority while working as deputy head of the village of Iskateley in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug: he recommended allocating an apartment to a woman who had already received subsidized housing from the state. The damage was estimated at 2.5 million rubles.

In December 2021, the court sentenced Yuri Zhdanov to three years of suspended imprisonment. Ten days after the sentencing, he was detained again and sent to a pre-trial detention center on charges of violating his recognizance not to leave. In February 2022, Mr. Zhdanov’s suspended sentence was replaced with a real one; he served his sentence in IK-14 in the Arkhangelsk region.

Lawyers for Yuri Zhdanov stated that the reason for the criminal case was the activities of his son, Ivan Zhdanov, an associate of Alexei Navalny (included in the list of extremists and terrorists of Rosfinmonitoring) and director of the FBK. Ivan Zhdanov himself is also a defendant in several criminal cases.

Petr Buzlaev