Dmitry is a programmer and a student of Moscow State University. He worked as a laboratory assistant at the Institute of System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a civil activist and author of the popular Telegram channel "Protest Moscow State University".

Dmitry was prosecuted for publicating content in the “Protest MSU” channel about alleged Russian attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, unlawful strikes on Ukrainian cities, war crimes in the Ukrainian towns of Bucha and Irpin, as well as for using the officially proscribed term “war” instead of “special military operation.”