Antifascist Bogdan Yakimenko was arrested on June 5, 2024, in Rostov-on-Don in connection with the Antifa United case, which the authorities declared an extremist organization. Pro-government channels call Yakimenko its organizer. Bogdan Yakimenko, had already faced persecution after he and Mikhail Ivanov were attacked by a group of neo-Nazis in 2020. The antifascists spent a year under house arrest, were later placed under a travel ban, and after their first conviction — which was later overturned — they spent eight months in pre-trial detention (SIZO).