The Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced postgraduate student Alexey Ptushkin of the «Slavic-Greco-Latin Academy» to five years in prison under the article on fake news about the army. The reason was two comments about the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant dam, which he left on VKontakte in 2023.

#Fakesaboutthearmy #Incontactwith #KakhovkaHydroelectricPowerStation #Mediazona #Moscow #repressions #Russiancourts

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Moscow’s Nikulinsky Court sentenced 20-year-old Elizaveta Mazurova to 12.5 years in a penal colony in the case of the attack on 59-year-old Galina Tikhomirova on the instructions of scammers. The prosecutor requested 10 years in a penal colony for her, and the court also ordered compulsory treatment and outpatient psychiatric supervision.

#foreignagents #Mediazona #Moscow #court #Telephonescammers

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A memorial complex for local residents killed in the war in Ukraine was ceremonially opened in Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, at Victory Square near the Eternal Flame. The opening was timed to coincide with the city’s 60th anniversary, and 519 names were counted on the granite slabs.

#AlexeyPesoshin #WarinUkraine #Mediazona #Nizhnekamsk #RadioLiberty #tatarstan

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In Yaroslavl, foreign language teacher Anastasia Shadrova was fined 5,000 rubles for a link to the British Council website, a British public organization, in an English assignment.

#BritishCouncil #ProsecutorGeneralsOfficeoftheRussianFederation #Mediazona #Shadrova #Yaroslavl

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Prosecutors requested 8 years in a penal colony for 61-year-old historian of Russian cuisine Pavel Syutkin in the case of military «fakes». The trial is being held behind closed doors, and the verdict will be announced on September 15.

#Bucha #militaryfakes #Kiev #Mediazona #PavelSyutkin #InvestigativeCommittee

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The 65-year-old Russian Dmitry Drig, who flew to Moscow to collect his pension, has been held since July 1 under a series of administrative arrests. The latest known decision — on August 31, the Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow sentenced him to another 10 days under a petty hooliganism report.

#DmitryDrig #Mediazona #Moscow #PerovskyDistrictCourtofMoscow #PreobrazhenskyDistrictCourtofMoscow #FSB

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