Cuban blogger received 8.5 years in prison for article about “fakes”

The Novokuban District Court of the Krasnodar Territory found blogger Alexander Nozdrinov, known as “Sanya Novokubansk”, guilty of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army. He was sentenced to eight and a half years of imprisonment in a general regime colony with a four-year ban on media work.

According to the human rights project “Network Freedoms”, the blogger was sentenced under the relevant article of the Criminal Code, which refers to the dissemination of false information motivated by self-interest and motivated by hatred, Kavkaz.Realii notes.

According to the investigation, Nozdrynov posted on the Telegram channel photos of destroyed houses that he had previously discovered on the Internet and accompanied the photos with the caption “Ukrainian cities after the arrival of the “liberators”. The evidence in the case was the testimony of a classified witness. At the same time, Nozdrynov himself claims that he did not even know about the existence of the Telegram channel in which he allegedly published “fakes”.

The blogger insists that bringing him to criminal responsibility is the revenge of law enforcement officials and the prosecutor’s office for his anti-corruption publications. Alexander Nozdrynov ran Telegram and YouTube channels under the name “Sanya Novokubansk”. In them, he criticized the actions of a number of representatives of law enforcement agencies, and in particular, employees of the traffic police, writes the “OVD-Info” project.

Since March 2022, Nozdrynov has been in the Armavir pre-trial detention center.

• Administrative and criminal articles about the so-called fakes about the Russian army were added by the State Duma to the Russian legislature shortly after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The courts recognize as discrediting the communication of any position on the war in Ukraine that contradicts Moscow’s official point of view.
• Russian courts have already handed down dozens of verdicts in cases of so-called “fakes about the army”, including in absentia – Alexander Nevzorov, Ilya Krasilshchik, Dmitry Glukhovsky. Politician Ilya Yashin received the maximum term – eight and a half years in the colony. As a rule, sentences were handed down in connection with statements about murders in Buch or Mariupol. There are no acquittals based on this article.