5.5 years for journalism. Mikhail Afanasyev was convicted under an article about fakes
See a new report from the project "Breecum" The judge of the Abakan city court, Yevgeny Glushcheakov, sentenced the Khakass journalist and chief editor of the New Focus publication Mikhail Afanasyev to five and a half years in prison. The journalist was found guilty of the spread of fakes about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In his article, because of which the case was initiated, he said that 11 riot police from Khakassia refused to participate in a special operation.