Ilia Sergeyevich Novikov (born February 11, 1982, Moscow) is a Russian[1] and Ukrainian[2] attorney (advocate).

He defended famous political prisoners in Russia such as Nadiya Savchenko,[3][4] Mykola Karpyuk,[5][6] Oyub Titiev,[7][8] Yegor Zhukov,[9] and Frode Berg.

Novikov was in the team of defenders of the Ukrainian flight navigator Nadiya Savchenko,[15] imprisoned by Russia for her involvement in the murder of Russian journalists.

[18] Novikov represented the interest of Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia, in particular Mykola Karpyuk, Stanislav Klykh, Oleksiy Chyrniy, Valentyn Vyhovsky and Igor Kiyashko.

[27] On 25 November 2022, Ilia Novikov was declared a "foreign agent" by the decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

[30] In October 2023, it became known, that criminal case of treason was initiated against Ilia Novikov by the Federal Security Service.

[31] In December 2023, the criminal case for "dissemination of "unreliable information" about the armed forces" was opened against Ilia Novikov by the Investigative Committee of Russia.

[34] In the 2011 summer series of games, he withdrew his candidacy for the presentation of the "Crystal Owl" and a large cash prize in favor of his teammate Grigory Alkhazov.

First appeared on the screen in 1996 in the "Wheel of History" program (with Yuri Nikulin), as a spectator in the studio, giving an exhaustive answer to one of the quiz questions.

In 2011, together with the singer Elena Perova, he became a finalist of the Cruel Intentions project, where he showed a very high level of physical and psychological fitness.