Ex-candidate for State Duma elections arrested in absentia

The Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow arrested in absentia former MP and candidate for elections to the State Duma Anastasia Bryukhanova. Information about this appeared in the Moscow City Court file, and Avtozak LIVE paid attention to it.

Bryukhanova received an electronic certificate of no criminal record on April 1, who lives outside Russia. After this, it became known that there was a case against the politician regarding military “fakes” (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), presumably because of the video “”, in June she was put on the federal wanted list.

received initiated Who committed the crimes in Bucha announced However, in the case file for choosing a preventive measure on the court’s website, an article about false reporting of a terrorist attack is indicated (Article 207 of the Criminal Code).

• Anastasia Bryukhanova worked at the Urban Projects Foundation of Ilya Varlamov and Maxim Katz. In 2016, she was elected as a municipal deputy of the Moscow Shchukino district, where she headed the commission for housing and communal services and improvement. In 2019, the girl tried to get into the Moscow City Duma, but she was not allowed to participate in the elections.
• In 2021, in the elections to the State Duma, Bryukhanova was in the lead in her single-mandate constituency after in-person voting and processing of 99% of the protocols. But after counting the votes of remote electronic voting, she lost to the candidate from A Just Russia.
• Article 207.3 (Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation) was added to the Criminal Code in March 2022 - in this way the authorities responded to anti-war speeches and statements, as well as the dissemination of information about the war that does not come from official Russian sources. The maximum penalty under this article is 15 years in prison. included - Since February 24, 2022—the first day of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine—residents of Russian cities have been going out to anti-war rallies every day and talking about the tragedy online. Anti-war speeches and statements become grounds for criminal prosecution. At the moment, more than 600 people have become defendants in criminal cases initiated due to protest against the war with Ukraine. Read more about this in our. infographics