The actor Artur Smolyaninov was charged with an administrative case on "discrediting" the RF Armed Forces, RBC was told in the press service of the Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow. A date for the hearing has not yet been set.
It is not known for which words the artist will be judged. In April, Smolyaninov gave a long anti-war interview to Ekaterina Gordeeva. After that, the actor was expelled from several projects with state funding – and he left Russia.
“In any case, I was going to leave: they gradually stopped giving me work. The noose was shrinking: for one reason or another, they didn’t take me there, they didn’t take me here … It’s clear that a glacier is moving towards you, but I didn’t want to run away from it, but still retreat gradually and hope that it would stop. But it is only gaining momentum,” Smolyaninov said in an interview with Meduza.