On May 19, 2025, the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (IC RF) Alexander Bastrykin reported that artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms played a key role in solving a number of high-profile crimes, including the murders of journalists Vladlen Tatarsky and Daria Dugina, as well as the attempted murders of writer Zakhar Prilepin and TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov.

According to Bastrykin, AI was used to analyze large amounts of data, including CCTV footage, telephone conversations, and instant messaging.

Darya Dugina was murdered on August 20, 2022, in the Moscow region, when her car exploded on the Mozhaisk highway. The investigation established that the explosive device was planted by Ukrainian citizen Natalya Vovk, acting on instructions from the Ukrainian special services. Vladlen Tatarsky was killed on April 2, 2023, as a result of an explosion in a cafe in St. Petersburg. Darya Trepova, who gave Tatarsky a figurine with explosives, was recognized as the perpetrator of the terrorist attack. Both cases, according to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, were coordinated from abroad, and AI helped to reconstruct the chain of events and identify the digital traces of the organizers.

The assassination attempt on Zakhar Prilepin took place on May 6, 2023, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, when his car was blown up. Prilepin survived, but his driver died. The suspect was Alexander Permyakov, recruited by the Ukrainian special services. In April 2022, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation also uncovered plans to assassinate Vladimir Solovyov, organized, according to investigators, by a neo-Nazi group acting on orders from the SBU.