A court in St. Petersburg on August 10 ordered one of the country's most prominent TV journalists, Aleksandr Nevzorov, who fled Russia in March 2022, to pay 20,000 rubles ($205) for "extremist" thoughts he expressed in his interview with RFE/RL's Belarus Service and on his YouTube channel about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In February, a court in Moscow sentenced Nevzorov in absentia to eight years in prison on the charge of discrediting the Russian armed forces. In June last year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a decree granting Ukrainian citizenship to Nevzorov and his wife, Lidia. To read the original story by Current Time, click here.
Journalist Aleksandr Nevzorov Fined In Russia Over RFE/RL Interview
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