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“I believe that in time everything will fall into place, that sooner or later justice will prevail and all the innocent will be vindicated — by a human court or by the court of God.” – Sergei Fedorov

On 22 July 2026 Sergei Fedorov, a Jehovah’s Witness, was sentenced to six years in a general regime penal colony in Togliatti on a charge of ‘organising the activities of an extremist organisation’ (Art. 282.2, Part 1, of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Memorial reports that Sergei Fedorov’s home was first searched in 2019 while he was living in Leningrad region as part of a criminal case against Jehovah’s Witnesses primarily in Petrozavodsk in Karelia. In March 2024, security forces raided Sergei Fedorov’s flat in Togliatti. According to Sergei Fedorov’s his wife Evgeniya, his glasses were broken and his lip was cut during the search and banned literature and a USB flash drive were planted on him. At the end of June that year, a third search was carried out at his home, after which he was remanded in custody. During the investigation, Sergei Fedorov was held in Karelia. He was then taken to Samara region for his trial in 2026.

Memorial has recognised Sergei Fedorov as a political prisoner.

 ‘Whatever your decision may be, I will accept it. The word of God helps me look to the future with confidence. This case is just another chapter. There is a whole book still ahead. I am not ashamed of how I have lived this chapter. I believe in people, in their good qualities, and I believe that truth does not change with time — it is eternal. I am fond of the words of the 19th-century German thinker Arthur Schopenhauer: “The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.” I believe that in time everything will fall into place, that sooner or later justice will prevail and all the innocent will be vindicated — by a human court or by the court of God.’

– Sergei Fedorov, from his closing statement at his trial

Source: ‘Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to six years in Togliatti,’ Political Prisoners. Memorial, 21 July 2026

Write to Sergei Fedorov

The Russian penal system does not allow any messages to prisoners that are written in foreign languages, but Write to Russia is here to help you. To show your support for Sergei Fedorov please send your letter as an email to us at: le******************@********il.com. We’ll translate your letter into Russian and, depending on your request, either mail the translated letters on your behalf to Sergei Fedorov, or return the letters to you by email for posting in an envelope with addresses written in Russian. If we send the letter on your behalf, we ask that you compensate us for the cost of postage from the UK (currently £3.60 [$4.89; €4.17] for one letter). For suggestions on what to write to a political prisoner, click here. To learn more about our letter writing project, click here: Write to Russia.

You can write to Sergei Fedorov at the following address:

Russian Federation – 445043, Самарская область, г. Тольятти, Хрящевское шоссе, д. 3, ФКУ СИЗО-4 УФСИН России по Самарской области, Фёдоров Сергей Валерианович, 1974 г. р. 

The persons unjustly imprisoned in Russia whose plight our project Write to Russia has highlighted to date can be found at this link:

Write to Russia – List of Prisoners

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