Background: Mikhail Lobanov is a left-wing politician, labor & student rights activist, Kremlin's critic, and mathematician. In 2021, when he ran for the State Duma, it's widely believed that his victory was stolen through fraud with online voting.
Lobanov has campaigned on behalf of political prisoners and condemned the invasion of Ukraine. In 2022, police arrested him for an anti-war protest, searched his home, and twice jailed him for 15 days. 2/