Eldar Marchenko
Moscow
52 yr old (born in 09.12.1972)
Address: 107996, г.Москва, ул. Матросская Тишина, дом 18, ФКУ СИЗО-1 УФСИН России по г. Москве ("Матросская тишина"), Марченко Эльдар Микаэль Оглы, 1972 г.р.
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Resident of Moscow, lecturer in sports management at RMA Business School. In 2022, wrote several columns for the independent media Vot Tak.
On August 1, 2024, FSB officers searched Marchenko's home without providing any documents. He was then taken for interrogation to the FSB Directorate in Lubyanka. On the way, he was tortured with electricity, forcing him to sign a confession of working for the Ukrainian security services. Marchenko's defence filed an complaint concerning the use of torture to the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee, but received no response.
Immediately after that Marchenko was arrested several times in a row under administrative articles, serving time under these articles in the Sakharovo detention centre for foreign citizens. On August 2, he was sentenced to 15 days under the article on petty hooliganism (part 2 of article 20.1 of the Administrative Code). According to the published decision, Marchenko was swearing in the street and refused to show his passport to the police.
Immediately after the end of the first arrest, on August 17, the lecturer was once again arrested for 15 days, now under Part 1 of the same article. Marchenko was sentenced to a third arrest - 10 days - on September 2. In both cases, he was again allegedly swearing in a public place, this time near the Sakharovo detention centre.
On 11 September 2024, the he was once again detained leaving the detention centre and taken to an unknown location. Later it turned out that he was taken to the State Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee. The next day Marchenko was taken into custody on charges of committing a terrorist act. In March 2025, TASS reported that, according to the case materials, Marchenko gave the coordinates of the airfield in Kursk to the Ukrainian armed forces for the purpose of striking it. Later it was reported that Marchenko was also accused of coordinating other strikes on Kursk, as well as on Rostov region.
On August 12, 2025, Marchenko was sentenced to 16 years in a strict regime colony.
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Address: 107996, г.Москва, ул. Матросская Тишина, дом 18, ФКУ СИЗО-1 УФСИН России по г. Москве ("Матросская тишина"), Марченко Эльдар Микаэль Оглы, 1972 г.р.