The Zamoskvoretsky Court arrested the former advisor to the head of Moscow’s Krasnoselsky district, Kirill Suvorov, in a case of spreading “fake news” about the army, the Beware, News website wrote.
According to the Telegram channel, the charge is linked to a video clip circulated on social media. Suvorov ran a YouTube channel containing anti-war speeches and poems.
It is available on the website of Moscow courts card Case of K.A. Suvorov, charged under the “fake” article (paragraph “d” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The case was referred to court on July 3, where a meeting was held at which the issue of choosing preventive measure in the form of arrest was considered. The outcome is not specified.
Kirill Suvorov since 2017 He was Municipal advisor to the head of the Krasnoselsky region Ilya Yashin, and then Elena Kutinochkina, who replaced him. After the beginning of a large-scale war, both were convicted in absentia in “fake” cases about the army – Yashin personally, and Kutinushkina, who had left Russia by that time. Suvorov himself resigned in 2022.
In the summer of 2022, Suvorov several times specific Administrative detention in cases of incitement to hatred, displaying Nazi symbols, identifying the actions of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and “defaming” the army. The reason for the persecution was his anti-war publications.