A new criminal case was opened against the convict in the "Minecraft case".

The investigation has opened a new criminal case against Nikita Uvarov, the main person involved in the case of the "Kansk teenagers" who planned to blow up the FSB building in the Minecraft game and were preparing for a real terrorist attack. This was reported on February 18 in the Investigative Department (SU) of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Uvarov was notified of the initiation of a new criminal case. He is charged with Part 2 of Article 282 ("Incitement of hatred or enmity").

According to one of the prisoners, Uvarov did not improve during his time in prison. So, in a conversation with his cellmates, he expressed ideas about creating a terrorist group. He also admired the Nazi Ukrainian Insurgent Army (recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia) and the nationalist Stepan Bandera.

"Not only has he not improved, he has begun to treat the authorities and everything else worse, he has become embittered at everyone. <...> When he gets out, I think he will commit even more crimes related to terrorist and extremist activities," Uvarov's cellmate told Izvestia.

In addition, according to the prisoner, Uvarov encouraged other teenagers in the colony to join secret groups that would post propaganda leaflets and engage in sabotage.

In the summer of 2020, three 14-year-old schoolchildren were detained by law enforcement officers in Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. According to investigators, the teenagers conducted correspondence on social networks in which they discussed ideas of radical opposition to the authorities. In the chat rooms, they outlined future targets and exchanged instructions on how to assemble land mines, Molotov cocktails, and fuses.

As the FSB noted at the time, the young people practiced their actions in the Minecraft game, where they wanted to blow up a replica of the department building. The FSB building in Kansk was not a virtual target for the students. Later, the defendants stated that they were "joking" in this way.

In 2022, the court sentenced Uvarov, who is considered the main person involved in the case, to five years in prison in an educational colony. Two other teenagers were released from criminal liability for assisting the investigation.

Earlier in the day, Irina Rusnak, a representative of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Omsk Region, reported that the Second Eastern District Military Court of Novosibirsk sentenced two teenagers to 7 and 7.5 years in a penal colony for setting fire to a Mi-8 military helicopter at an airbase in Omsk in 2024.

The incident occurred in September 2024. The defendants, who were 16 years old at the time of the crime, made an incendiary mixture and set fire to the aircraft at night. According to investigators, the young people filmed the arson process on their phone and sent the video to the curator, who promised $20 thousand for it. However, the teenagers did not receive the money.

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