Andrey is registered with a psychiatrist. Prior to his arrest, his relatives started to register him for disability. Biryukov's mother and her parents also have disabilities. Without Biryukov, they find it difficult to cope in the home. Andrey was detained on 28 July 2022 after a search, the court later sent him to custody. According to his mother, the real reason for the prosecution could have been the posts about the war in Ukraine. Biryukov used to run a website dedicated to events in the country. According to the lawyer, the investigator did not allow face to face appointments with relatives, neither he allowed them to call him, until he confessed and began to cooperate with the investigation. In the end, Biryukov admitted guilt and agreed to cooperate. On 9 November 2022, he was sentenced to three and a half years in a general regime colony; he was also banned from administering websites for two years. Due to Biryukov's speech at the trial during the appeal against the sentence, a new case of public justification of terrorism and incitement to hatred was brought against him. On 18 April 2024, he was sentenced in this case to four years. Taking into account the previous sentence, the total term should be six years.