A Moscow court has sentenced Kruglov, an ex-deputy of the Moscow City Duma, to seven years in a penal colony.

A court in Moscow has sentenced Maxim Kruglov, a former deputy of the Moscow City Duma from the Yabloko party (listed as a terrorist and extremist in the Russian Federation), to seven years in prison in the case of spreading fakes about the Russian Armed Forces. This was reported on June 24 by a correspondent of Izvestia from the courtroom.

It is clarified that he was also banned from administering websites for three years. The prosecutor requested eight years of imprisonment for Kruglov to serve his sentence in a general regime colony.

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Kruglov's detention became known in October last year. According to investigators, in April 2022, the former deputy posted false information about the actions of the Russian military in Ukraine on his Telegram channel. The Investigative Committee did not specify which publications it was talking about.