Kamikaze Di (Dmitry Ivanov), a 36-year-old blogger and ex-editor-in-chief of CarambaTV, has been prosecuted for “fake news” about the Russian Armed Forces, he faces three years in prison. Mash reports .
According to the channel, the case was opened because of videos in which Ivanov stated that the Russian army launched an airstrike on the Drama Theater in Mariupol, and also criticized the speech of the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
In 2017, the blogger left Russia after checking one of his videos. In the video, he, along with LDPR deputy Ilya Maddison, laughed at people with low salaries. Then they wrote a statement against him, arguing that the statements fall under “incitement to suicide” (110.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
After the outbreak of the war, Roskomnadzor demanded that the Russian media use only the wording “special operation” when covering the invasion of Ukraine. On March 2, a law on “fakes” about the actions of the Russian army was submitted to the State Duma and adopted two days later by a decree of Vladimir Putin, as a result of which censorship was actually introduced in the field of coverage of the activities of the military. Punishment for "fakes" provides for criminal liability up to 15 years in prison. In Russia, criminal cases are being massively initiated against citizens both under articles on “fake” and on “discrediting” the army.
On July 8, Alexei Gorinov, the Mundep of the Krasnoselsky District, was sentenced to 7 years in a general regime colony in Moscow under an article about military “fakes”. According to investigators, on March 15, during a meeting of the Council of Deputies, the politician made a number of statements "containing data about the RF Armed Forces that do not correspond to reality." Gorinov called the “special military operation” in Ukraine a “war” and talked about the deaths of Ukrainian children.