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On September 19, 2025, the Ministry of Internal Affairs again published the list of the most wanted Russian criminals. Compared with last year's list, it changed in only one respect: neo-Nazi Semyon Yermolinsky was removed from it. The leader of the Ural organized crime group "Chistilshchiki" went to fight on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and died in May of this year.
In all other respects, the list remained unchanged: it still includes the leaders of the Azov Battalion, Konstantin Nemichev and Sergey Velichko, who are accused of torturing Russian servicemen and murders committed with particular cruelty. Among the especially dangerous criminals is also the Orsk maniac Valery Andreyev, who is suspected of involvement in the abductions, rapes, and murders of women in the Orenburg Region in the period from 2006 to 2012. Also mentioned is Andrey Kuznetsov, known as cell attendant Siluan: according to the security forces, he was hiding in the Sredneuralsk Women's Monastery, which was being held by supporters of the former schema-monk Sergiy (Nikolai Romanov), who was excommunicated.
The list includes Nikolai Yemelyanov, who is known as the leader of the Bryansk organized crime group Yemelya, Vladimir Kirillov, who carried out an attempted murder of the chairman of the Samara Regional Court, as well as Dmitry Mamonov. In 2002, he came to his friend's home, killed him with a knife, and then, trying to avoid responsibility, booby-trapped the body, connected the wires from the detonator to the lock of the front door, and fled. However, the explosive device did not go off at that time.
The list of criminals most wanted by Russian law enforcement agencies also includes Oleg Timoshenko, a native of the Ukrainian city of Kirovograd, known in criminal circles by the nickname Timokha and implicated in a series of contract killings and robberies. Also on it are Andrey Samoylov, who is considered the main suspect in committing at least five murders and attempted murders of three people in Chelyabinsk and Surgut in 1991 and 1995, as well as the head of the organized crime group Fakhrudin Makhmudov, nicknamed Farid, who fled Russia. The list is rounded out by Vladimir Shesterin, whom investigators consider to be involved in the death of crime boss Stanislav Galkin.
"The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs asks citizens to help in the search for criminals who committed especially grave crimes. The reward for assistance in the search is 1 million rubles for each of the wanted persons," the statement on the Ministry of Internal Affairs website says.
On May 5, 2025, SHOT reported that the outlet's journalists had managed to establish the whereabouts of Nikolai Yemelyanov, the leader of the Yemelyanovskie organized crime group: according to them, he had moved to Ukraine.
Nikolai Yemelyanov was born on September 19, 1961, in the village of Gosoma in the Bryansk Region. Little is known about his life before the beginning of the 1990s, but from about the mid-1990s his name begins to appear regularly in the criminal bulletins of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
"At that time, Yemelyanov had no gunmen at all; he was engaged in economic crime," former UBOP officer Leonid S. told journalists in 2020. "According to operational information, money from smuggling was laundered through firms controlled by Yemelyanov. In addition, he had a network of payment terminals that operated, to put it mildly, very crookedly, and many shell companies. And Yemelyanov was helped in his affairs by his longtime acquaintance, politician and businessman Nikolai Denin - it was he who introduced Yemelya to big business. And he, in turn, financed Denin's movement into politics. As a result, Denin became governor of the Bryansk Region (2004-2014), was then dismissed due to loss of trust, convicted of abuse of office, and has already even been released. But Yemelya is still on the run..."