# Senior Russian internet regulator programmer gets suspended sentence for Navalny foundation donation

https://mins.news/en/item/30921

- Meduza, 2026-08-24 19:43 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/24/senior-programmer-at-russia-s-internet-regulator-is-sentenced-for-donation-to-navalny-s-anti-corruption-foundation

> A Moscow court sentenced Leonid Stepanov, a lead programmer at a Roskomnadzor-run agency, to four years suspended for financing extremism. The case concerned two 2021 transfers totaling 1,532 rubles and 43 kopecks to Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, which Russian authorities had already designated an “extremist organization.”

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