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Bohdan Mityuk

Bohdan Mityuk from Bryansk is on trial for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. He was previously fined for a picture depicting a swastika merged with the letter Z.

LAST UPDATED · MAY 26, 2026

Bryansk, Bryansk Oblast

anti war

Dmitry Kalashnikov

Dmitry Kalashnikov was sentenced to eight months in a penal colony for rehabilitating Nazism. The charges arose from a comment made in a messenger groupchat that expressed a negative attitude towards the special military operation and symbols of Russian military glory.

LAST UPDATED · MAY 26, 2026

Convicted