A district court in Sosnowiec, Poland, sentenced former Open Russia coordinator Igor Rogov to seven years in prison in a case involving cooperation with Russian intelligence. According to Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office, his wife Irina Rogova, also known as Moseikina, was given three years in prison.
Prosecutors said that from February to August 2022, Rogov collected information about Russian opposition activists living in Poland and about organizations assisting them. Investigators allege that he passed the data to his wife on an encrypted electronic device, and that she delivered it to the FSB during trips to Russia.
Irina Rogova denied guilt, but told the court that she knew about her husband’s contacts with Russian intelligence. Rogov had earlier admitted to investigators that he cooperated with the FSB, while insisting he did so under pressure. He said Russian security officers threatened to have his father mobilized for the war.
Prosecutors also accused Rogov over the shipment of an explosive device in July 2024, intercepted at a warehouse in the Lodz Voivodeship. Forensic experts said the package contained nitroglycerin, electric detonators, aluminum powder, and other components that allowed it to be classified as a shaped-charge bomb. Rogov said he had only agreed to receive the parcel at the request of a friend named Emil, who had left Poland for Russia.
Wirtualna Polska reported that searches of Rogov’s smartphone memory uncovered photographs of a gas pipeline in Sosnowiec and a heating pipeline belonging to the energy company Tauron. At the same time, the outlet Vot Tak noted that the Polish indictment did not connect the espionage charge with the parcel episode, which case materials described as part of an operation by Ukrainian special services.
The court ultimately found Rogov guilty of both espionage and creating a direct danger because of an explosion risk. Irina Rogova was convicted of aiding and inciting espionage. According to the Polish outlet Fakt, the trial had been held behind closed doors since January 2026 because of the political nature of the case and security concerns.
As Vot Tak noted, the couple had been held in custody while awaiting sentencing, and under Polish law one day in pretrial detention counts as one day of a prison term. Rogov has been under arrest since July 2024, so his sentence is expected to end in about five years. Irina Rogova has been in custody since December 2024, leaving her with roughly a year and a half to serve.
The case also involved two Ukrainian nationals. One of them, a model from Odesa who delivered the parcel to Rogov in a luxury shoe box, said she did not know what was inside. Prosecutors failed to prove any role in espionage, and the court fined her 6,000 zlotys, or about 130,000 rubles. Rogov and his wife had lived in southern Poland since 2022, where he arrived as a political refugee and later became a student and recipient of the Katowice program scholarship. Before leaving Russia, he had coordinated Open Russia in Saransk and worked for Alexei Navalny’s Mordovia штаб.