In Russia, a lawyer Nikolai Polozov, who was living in Ukraine, was put on the wanted list; He defended Nadezhda Savchenko and other Ukrainian prisoners

The Ministry of Internal Affairs added to the base of the federal wanted list of lawyer Nikolai Polozov, who lives in Ukraine. Attention to this was drawn by the Mediazon.

This means that a criminal case was opened against Polov, but the occasion is unknown. The search card indicates the number of the duty unit of the Internal Affairs Directorate in the South-Western District of Moscow.

In December 2024, the Ministry of Justice of Russia introduced Nikolai Polozov into the register of “foreign agents”. A month later, in January 2025, the Moscow court fined a lawyer under an article on “discrediting” the Russian army due to several comments about the war to journalists on YouTube (part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The protocol contains his speeches for 2022, starting in April 2022 - on the murder of Buchi residents.

The penalty that entered into force gives the security forces the opportunity to initiate a criminal case against the lawyer about the “discredit” of the army.

In June 2025, Polozov was also a fine due to the absence of a “foreign agent” dies in posts in Telegram (part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). For a criminal case you need at least two such fines.

Nikolai Polozov defended the members of the Pussy Riot group, the leader of the Left Front movement Sergei Udaltsov, the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, 24 Ukrainian sailors detained in the Black Sea in 2018, as well as the Crimean Tatar activists and other political prisoners in Crimea.

After the Russian full -scale invasion in 2022, he became one of the founders of the project “Search. Captivity ”(“ Zhauk. Full ”), which is engaged in the search for Ukrainians who have fallen into Russian captivity and his help with legal assistance.

So, in June 2025, Polozov spoke about the opening of “at least five” secret prisoners for Ukrainian prisoners, in addition to pre -trial detention centers and colonies that were used for this. In the materials of the affairs, according to him, they were called "centers of temporary detention of persons detained for opposition to their own." The Zvezda channel in 2022 issued a plot about the creation of one of these centers on the basis of the former granary.