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A hairdresser from St. Petersburg has been imprisoned for five years and two months on charges of distributing false news for the Russian army.
Anna Alexandrova denied publishing eight anti -war messages on social media, insisting that the case was motivated by Calvar over a land with a neighbor.
Her neighbor told the BBC that she had complained to prosecutors after Alexandrova sent her daughter photos from the war in Ukraine.
The discounting of the Armed Forces and the deliberate spread of fake news about the military has become a crime in Russia within weeks after the full -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Since the war began, the Kremlin has increased the repression of disagreement, closed hundreds of opponents and critics and silenced the independent media.
In a separate case on Tuesday, four journalists were closed in Moscow for five and a half years after being found guilty of working for an “extremist organization”.
Antonina Favorski, Kostantine Gabov, Sergei Karelin and Arthom Kriger all insisted that they were doing their job only as journalists, but the court found that they had produced a job used by an anti -corruption group founded by Putin’s chief opponent Navalv.
Naval was found dead in a criminal colony in the Arctic Circle last year. A video shot by Favorskaya in a video link in the courtroom the day before Navalny’s controversial death was the last time he was once seen alive.
Favorskaya works for an independent exit Sotavision and was eventually arrested in March 2024. Shooting a cemetery where he is buried.
Russia’s restrictive laws regarding disagreement have built people from all spheres of life.
The denations led to a prison deadlines, and the Russians informed about their colleagues and other people who knew, in actions reminiscent of the Soviet era, when a boy called Pavlik Morozov was personified to hand over his own father.
Hairdresser Anna Alexandrov, a 47-year-old mother of two, was arrested for the first time in November 2023 for eight publications, which she shared through two anonymous accounts on the Russian social network Vkontakte.
When BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg visited the court last September, Alexandrova’s lawyer told him that the case had begun as a simple internal ruin over the land.
“One side went to the police, but there was nowhere. This only changed when the accusation of” fake news about the army appeared, “Anastasia Pilipenko said.
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It turned out that Anna Alexandrova was originally on the same country as her neighbor in the fight against local deforestation by developers in the village of Corpikilia, south of St. Petersburg.
But in the end, they fell apart in a row, which was becoming more jerk.
Although Alexandrova denied sending images from her neighbor’s war, the court sent her to a criminal colony and ordered her not to publish additional materials for the next three years.
Meanwhile, the councilors’ attorneys in Moscow, who received the first full term of prison in July 2022, under the Fake News Act, filed a complaint against the crime in the Constitutional Court of Russia.
Alexei Gorinov initially received seven years in prison after being filmed, criticizing Russia’s invasion at a council meeting. He had objected to the idea of a competition for drawing children, which took place when the children were dying in Ukraine.
This initial sentence was extended by three years last year when he was charged with criticizing the war at a prison hospital.
In a statement on Tuesday, lawyers Catherine Tertukina and Olga Paplalova said that an article in 2022 aimed at combating misinformation did not serve constitutionally legal goals.
“Under the guise of the defense of public order, it is used to punish anti-war views, criticism of authorities and the dissemination of information-influentially true information-if it contradicts the official story,” lawyers say.