Russia’s terrorist list has a new youngest member. He’s 14 and accused of trying to set fire to a police car.

Source: Mediazona

Rosfinmonitoring has added Ivan Maltsev, a 14-year-old from Barnaul who turned 14 in June, to its list of terrorists and extremists, a Telegram channel that tracks updates to the list reported. The channel called him the youngest person on the list.

An asterisk beside Maltsev’s name signals that he’s charged under a terrorism-related statute.

The independent Russian news outlet Mediazona spoke with the boy’s father, who said his son is being prosecuted under a statute covering terrorism or sabotage. He said Ivan is accused of setting fire to a police car, “but there was no arson.”

The father said Ivan has been barred from leaving home. Mediazona surmises he has been placed under a pretrial restriction prohibiting him from certain actions.

According to the father, the correspondence that led to his son’s detention began early in the year, before Ivan turned 14. “You could say he was recruited. They wrote to him, threatened him. They scared him by saying his parents would be charged. He was afraid of that,” the father said.

Rosfinmonitoring added Viktor Kalinin, a 14-year-old from St. Petersburg who had turned 14 three months earlier, to its list of terrorists and extremists on July 30. He’s likely the teenager detained in early July on charges of setting fire to a railway relay cabinet.

More than 21,000 people were on Rosfinmonitoring’s list by the start of summer 2026, including 20 who were 14-year-old teenagers.

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