Russian nationalist convicted of calling for Komi to secede from Russia
Yury Avdoshkin, co-chairman of Frontier of the North, was convicted in 2015 of calling for separatism. In August 2016, we learned that on June 3, 2015, the Syktyvkar City Court of the Komi Republic found Russian nationalist Yuri Avdoshkin guilty under part 2 of Art. 280.1 of the Criminal Code (public calls for separatism made using the Internet). He was sentenced to 200 hours of compulsory labor and released from punishment under an amnesty.