Petersburg: Hieromonk was detained under a criminal article about "military fakes"

The Novosibirsk Hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church, John Kurmoyarov, was detained in St. Petersburg and accused under the criminal article on the public distribution of obviously false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The editorial office of Siberia. Realiy was announced by a friend of the clergyman.

According to him, the case was instituted on the basis of a video from the Utuub Channel Karmoyarov called "Who will be in hell and who is in paradise?" Dedicated to the "special operation" in Ukraine. Kramoyarov himself was detained, he was taken from him gadgets, two icons, a wooden cross and a cash. According to this article, he faces up to 10 years in the colony.

The court arrested Kamyarov for two months at the request of the investigation.

• In December, Kramoyarov wrote a statement to the Investigative Committee on Sergey Shoigu with a request to bring the Minister of Defense accountable for insulting the feelings of believers. The priest believes that the Ministry of Defense in the church in the Patriot Park near Moscow, frescoes depicting the Red Army and communist symbols insult the feelings of believers. In February, Kramoyarov published an open letter demanding the Minister of Defense to remove communist symbols from the church. In March, the Ministry of Defense replied that they did not consider these images insulting, moreover, they are supposedly a reflection of an existing religious tradition.
• In the summer of 2020, after criticism of the main temple of the Armed Forces, the Metropolitan forbade Karmoyarov in the ministry "in connection with the inconsistency of the rank of cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church" and "until all the circumstances of unworthy behavior."