The Omsk District Court sentenced archaeologist Yevgeny Kruglov to eight months of corrective labor in the case of “fake news” about the army for reposting reports on Russian crimes in Bucha and Mariupol. This was announced by the lawyer of the human rights project "OVD-Info" Andrey Ognev.
After the verdict was announced, the archaeologist was released from custody in the courtroom.
On May 4, Kruglov reposted a selection of news about Russia's crimes in Bucha and Mariupol from his closed group "Diary of a Siberian" on VKontakte. Already on May 6, employees of the FSB and Center “E” came to his house, in the police department they asked him for three hours why he wrote about Ukraine on social networks. Kruglov also said that during the interrogation, the police “fooled their heads with propaganda about the Nazis.”
In July, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Omsk Region opened a case of "fakes" about the army against Kruglov. He was interrogated in a criminal case on July 22 in the Tyumen region, where he was on an archaeological expedition. Operatives and OMON specially arrived in the neighboring region to detain the scientist and deliver him to Omsk.