The St. Petersburg City Court overturned the termination of criminal proceedings against poet Glikeriy Ulunov, whose legal name is Kirill Yakovlev, and ordered the case reconsidered. The decision was issued on October 20 following an appeal by prosecutors.
According to Mediazona, Ulunov is charged under Part 2 of Article 110.2 of the Russian Criminal Code, which concerns organizing activities intended to encourage suicide through the internet.
The prosecution stems from his ironic poem titled "Пять тыщ идей для деструктивного дейта" ("Five Thousand Ideas for a Destructive Date"). Investigators allege that the work contains encouragement to commit suicide.
The poet was detained in St. Petersburg in August 2025 and subsequently spent approximately nine months in pretrial detention.
In June 2026, the city's Kuibyshevsky District Court terminated the case. In reaching its decision, the court applied a provision accompanying Article 110.2 that allows a person to be released from criminal liability after ceasing the activity in question and assisting the investigation.
Prosecutors opposed terminating the proceedings, but the court of first instance rejected their position at the time.
Ulunov left Russia following his release. In an interview with the outlet Bumaga, he discussed the preliminary investigation and said he had given testimony identifying people connected with the poem's publication.
Those details come from the poet's own account. They should not automatically be interpreted as evidence of unlawful conduct by other people.
Prosecutors appealed the June decision. In October, the City Court accepted the prosecution's arguments for reconsidering the termination. The case was returned to the Kuibyshevsky District Court, where a different judge will hear it.
The appellate decision does not establish Ulunov's guilt and is not a new conviction.
The case continues to attract attention because prosecutors have applied a criminal provision concerning encouragement of suicide to a literary work, and because the poet spent months in detention before the proceedings were initially terminated.