Laurent Claude Jean-Louis Vinatier
Moscow
49 yr old (born in 23.07.1976)
Address: 111116, г. Москва, Лефортовский вал, д.5, ФКУ СИЗО-2 ФСИН России ("Лефортово"), Винатье Лоран Клод Жан Луи , 1976 г.р.
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Consultant at the Henri Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, based in Geneva. This organization was founded in 1999 and specializes in various mediation and peacekeeping missions during wars and armed conflicts.
He holds a PhD, works with the Paris Institute for Political Studies and is considered an expert on Russia and Central Asia. The political scientist specializes on Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan, his LinkedIn profile said. He speaks fluent Russian and regularly publishes in specialized journals.
Vinatier's work has focused in particular on events in Chechnya in the 1990s and early 2000s, as well as the role of Islam in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and the North Caucasus. He has published Islamism in Central Asia, as well as Chechens: Diaspora at War and Russia: The Chechen Impasse.
On 6 June 2024, he was detained in Moscow on suspicion of collecting information in the field of military and military-technical activities of the Russian Federation without submitting the documents required for inclusion in the register of "foreign agents". On 7 June, he was charged and Vinatier was taken into custody. On 21 June he was included in the register of "foreign agents".
On 14 October 2024 Vinatier was sentenced to three years in a general regime colony.
In August 2025, it became known that a case of espionage was opened against Vinatier. The details of this case are unknown.
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Address: 111116, г. Москва, Лефортовский вал, д.5, ФКУ СИЗО-2 ФСИН России ("Лефортово"), Винатье Лоран Клод Жан Луи , 1976 г.р.
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