The son of co-founder Runet Soldatov reported that his father “is dying in prison”

Alexey Soldatov, the former Deputy Minister of Communications of Russia and co-founder of Runet, recently had a serious deterioration in his health. His son, journalist Andrey Soldatov, reported this on X social networks. “My father is dying in prison. He is terminally ill, he has been there since July 22,” Soldatov’s son writes.

According to his son, Soldatov Sr. does not receive proper treatment in prison. At the end of August, Alexey Soldatov’s temperature rose and lung problems began. Ego was transferred to the hospital at the “Matrosskaya Tishina” pre-trial detention center. “It didn’t help. At the same time, the prison medical commission found my father healthy enough to remain behind bars. Now they want to transfer him back to the cell,” Andrey Soldatov said. In conclusion, he calls the father’s further maintenance a “death sentence.”

Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Council on Human Rights under the President of Russia, noted that Soldatov Sr. underwent two oncological operations, suffers from chronic heart failure and a number of other serious ailments, including the respiratory system.

Soldatov’s wife said that he slept on the floor, without a mattress, in a cell for 40 people the first night in SIZO-4 “Medved”. FSIN denied this, reminds “Mediazona”.

• In July 2024, the 72-year-old professor, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics Alexey Soldatov was sentenced by a court in Moscow to two years in a general regime colony on charges of abuse of power and taken into custody.
• The case against Soldatov and his colleagues was initiated in 2019. Initially, they were accused of fraud, then the charge was reclassified as abuse of authority.
• According to the investigation, the ex-deputy minister of communications, together with his business partners, transferred the rights to IP addresses belonging to the Russian Research Institute for the Development of Public Networks (RosNIYROS) to the Czech provider Reliable Communications. At the same time, according to the investigation, the consent of the founders of RosNIYROS to the transaction was not received, Mediazona writes.
• According to “Meduza”, the case against Alexei Soldatov and his business partners appeared after the intervention of the presidential administration. The application with a request to verify the transfer of IP addresses was submitted personally by Andrey Lipov – the then head of the Russian President’s Department for the Development of Information and Communication Technologies.