A member of St.
Petersburgs legislative assembly, Boris Vishnevsky, has been charged with discrediting the Russian army, the regional newspaper Zaks.ru reported Monday.
Prosecutors charged popular opposition deputy Boris Vishnevsky and previous deputy Maxim Reznik with spreading out product about the city of Bucha and info on the large number of civilians killed, the court told the independent media outlet Rotonda.
The charges relate to an open letter Vishnevksy signed alongside other popular Russian figures asking Russias Investigative Committee chairman Alexander Bastrykin to investigate the massacre of civilians that occurred in the Kyiv residential area of Bucha in March.
Both politicians stated they had been unaware of the charges prior to they were revealed, though Reznik, who left Russia on Sep.
16, broadly welcomed the news.
Overall I am grateful.
If this had not taken place, I would begin to believe I wasnt striving enough, he stated.
If condemned, both guys might deal with a fine of approximately 50,000 rubles ($715).
Vishnevsky, a member of the liberal Yabloko party who has stayed in Russia considering that the intrusion of Ukraine, stated that district attorneys had not asked him to participate in the police station for initial questioning as is usual protocol in the building of a case.Vishnevksy made the news in 2021 for being forced to complete versus multiple doppelgngers bearing his name and surname in St.
Petersburgs local elections that year and has been a thorn in the side of the authorities for some time.In December, the political leader exposed that the St.
Petersburg authorities had actually contributed $1.5 million from the citys local spending plan toward the reconstruction of Mariupol, the Russian-occupied southern Ukrainian port city mainly damaged by Russian soldiers last year.