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A court in Abakan arrested the editor-in-chief of the online magazine “New Focus” on charges of “fakes” about the army
The Abakan City Court sent the editor-in-chief of the online magazine “New Focus” Mikhail Afanasyev to pre-trial detention in the case of “fakes” about the Russian army, spread using his official position (clause “a”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This is what “Network Freedoms” is about.
write The Investigative Committee considers unreliable information about “the number of dead, missing and wounded employees of the Office [of the National Guard in the Republic of Khakassia], the inadequate level of material support for employees and the improper performance of duties by management personnel, which allegedly took place on February 24, 2022 after crossing the border with Ukraine ”, which were published in the magazine “New Focus”.
Roskomnadzor blocks media sites that reprint the New Focus article “11 riot policemen refused to fight in Ukraine and went home,” writes Network Freedoms.
On April 13, to Afanasyev with a search. The investigator and the police confiscated his computers, communications equipment and storage media.