Azat Miftakhov

[4] Miftakhov, a "self-described anarchist,"[5] was arrested on 1 February 2019, after law enforcement officers searched his student's dorm room, and accused of building an "explosive device" that had been found a year earlier in a city near Moscow, Balashikha.

On the night of 31 January 2018, unidentified persons had broken a window at United Russia’s office on Onezhskaya Street, Moscow, and threw inside a smoke grenade.

According to the indictment, they belonged to an anarchist movement called "People’s Self-Defense",[note 1] which was, at the time, blamed for the 2018 terrorist attack on the Federal Security Service building in Arkhangelsk.

[8] Following the court's decision, but also during the trial, numerous protests were addressed to the Russian authorities for Miftakhov's treatment, such as the open letter issued on by the Société mathématique de France,[9] another from the Brazilian Mathematical Society,[10] and others.

[14] The Fondation Mathématique Jacques Hadamard (FMJH) and the Laboratoire de Mathématiques d’Orsay (LMO) announced on February 23, 2021, that Azat Miftakhov is a Laureate of their incoming international mobility program called "junior scientific visibility" which aims to fund a period of research studies of a young talented international PhD students under the direction of a mathematician belonging to a FMJH-affiliated laboratory.