Dmitry Talantov
Attorney, President of the Udmurtia Bar Association (East of European Russia). One of the attorneys having defended journalist Ivan Safronov, charged under the article on state treason. Detained on 28 June 2022 in Izhevsk on suspicion of spreading "fakes" about the Russian army on the grounds of hatred or hostility and taken to Moscow. The next day, the court moved to take him into custody. Later, another case was opened against him for incitement to hatred against social groups "representatives of the authorities, government bodies in the Russian Federation" and "supporters of the Russian president among lawyers also supporting the special military operation." In July, his attorney Daniil Berman shared the information that the pre-trial detention facility Talantov was kept in had no living space assigned to him. In December, the case was transferred to the Zavyalovsky District Court of Udmurtia. Talantov suffers from hypertension, his blood pressure was recorded at 220/120 during admittance to the pre-trial detention centre. On 28 November 2024, Talantov was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.