The military court announced the verdict to three 16-year-old teenagers from the city of Kansk (Krasnoyarsk Territory), accused under terrorist articles. Nikita Uvarov, whom the investigation considered the leader of the group, received five years in prison and a fine of 30 thousand rubles. Two other defendants in the case (according to human rights activists, their names are Denis Mikhailenko and Bogdan Andreev) were released from criminal liability because they assisted the investigation, Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora human rights group, said.. The teenagers were accused of making explosives and training to participate in terrorist activities.. Teenagers were detained in the summer of 2020, when they were 14 years old. This happened after leaflets criticizing the authorities and words of support for political prisoners appeared in Kansk, including on the FSB building.. The investigators studied the messages of the detainees in social networks.

Teenagers discussed anarchism, pyrotechnic experiments and weapons from " The most famous fragment from the correspondence was the part with the discussion of the “explosion” of the FSB building in the Minecraft game, Baza wrote.. But, as OVD-Info notes, schoolchildren were not directly accused of organizing the explosion in Minecraft. Their correspondence, including about the game, was used by the investigation as evidence of training in terrorism.. At the same time, FSB director Alexander Bortnikov stated in June 2021 that terrorists recruit young people in chat rooms of multiplayer computer games and create "