Vyacheslav Kryukov, convicted in the “New Greatness” case, left Russia

Vyacheslav Kryukov, convicted in the New Greatness case, who was released from the colony in October 2022, left Russia. He announced this in his Telegram channel.

After serving the term, Kryukov was forbidden to publish materials on the Internet, and he was also imposed with restrictions on his freedom and administrative supervision for 8 years.

“I simply could not remain silent and inactive, seeing what chaos is now happening in my homeland. In Russia, I was completely tied hand and foot, and accordingly, I could not do anything useful for the development of my country, because, at best, I would have ended up behind bars very quickly,” Kryukov wrote.

• Vyacheslav Kryukov was sentenced to six years in prison in August 2020. He spent more than two years in the colony, before that he was in the Moscow pre-trial detention center for the same amount of time. Kryukov was 19 years old at the time of his arrest in March 2018.
• A criminal case against “New Greatness” was initiated in March 2018. According to the investigation, seven young people, the youngest of whom was 19 years old, and the oldest – 33 years old, created an extremist community and prepared a coup d’état. The defendants’ lawyers argued that the criminal case was the result of provocation by law enforcement officers, and the “New Greatness” community itself never existed.