Ex-lawyer Mark Feigin has been put on the wanted list, reports . TASS
There is no information about what crime the man is wanted for. Feigin previously emigrated from Russia; now he writes a blog in which he discusses the war with Ukraine.
In April 2022, the ex-lawyer was added to the register of “foreign agents”, and later he was fined under the article for failure to fulfill relevant duties (Part 1 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). In the spring of this year, the Prosecutor General’s Office recognized the “Congress of People’s Deputies,” in which Feigin is one of the leaders, as “undesirable.”
Last winter, the streaming platform Twitch was fined four million rubles due to its refusal to delete an interview given to Feigin by ex-adviser to the office of the President of Ukraine Alexey Arestovich.
11:35 TASS clarified its original publication: Mark Feigin is wanted as a suspect under the article on distributing “fake news” about the army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).
- “Congress of People's Deputies” is a meeting of former Russian deputies. The meeting of the organization took place from November 4 to November 7, 2022 in Poland.
- Article 207.3 (Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation) was included in 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.
- At the moment, more than 700 people have become defendants in criminal cases initiated due to protest against the war with Ukraine. Read more about this in our infographic .