The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow sentenced an anti-war activist from Tver to 6 years of imprisonment. According to a court decision, Ivan Kudryashov must spend 2.5 years in prison, and the remaining term in a strict regime colony.
Ivan and his defense claim that the case has been fabricated by FSB. Kudryashov was accused of planning to arson the military registration and enlistment office.
The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow sentenced an anti-war activist from Tver to 6 years of imprisonment. According to a court decision, Ivan Kudryashov must spend 2.5 years in prison, and the remaining term in a strict regime colony.
Ivan and his defense claim that the case has been fabricated by FSB. Kudryashov was accused of planning to arson the military registration and enlistment office.
Soloviev also promoted the channel in a post he shared on his own Telegram, which has 580,000 followers. The post recommended his viewers subscribe to "War on Fakes" in a time of fake news. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” But the Ukraine Crisis Media Center's Tsekhanovska points out that communications are often down in zones most affected by the war, making this sort of cross-referencing a luxury many cannot afford. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world.
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