A woman in early April on a street in Bucha littered with wrecked Russian military vehicles.
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The Russian district deputy Alexei Gorimov was sentenced to seven years in a camp for “false news” about the war. Now his courageous final word has reached the public.
ALexei Gorinov is the first opponent of the war in Ukraine who has been sentenced to a long prison term in Russia for spreading alleged “fake news”. In July a court sentenced the Moscow district deputy to seven years in a camp. In a meeting in mid-March, Gorimov spoke out against leisure events in his district in the center of the Russian capital as long as the war lasted. “What kind of competition for children’s drawings on Children’s Protection Day, how to organize dance programs on Victory Day, when children die every day here?” Gorinov asked.
That was enough for a conviction, which was probably intended to be a signal, as was probably his treatment in custody. From there, the 61-year-old Muscovite reported who graduated from a surveying institute in 1984 and law school in 2004, reported at the end of August that he had been coughing continuously for three weeks but had not received any medical treatment. On Monday, the appeal hearing was held in front of the Moscow City Court, behind closed doors – allegedly because of threats, but probably in truth because Gorimov was not supposed to be given a “stage”.