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Smolyanin fined for discrediting Russian military

June 11, 2023

According to the documents of the department of the FSB of Russia in the Smolensk region, a 34-year-old man was fined in the region for discrediting the army of the Russian Federation.

The offender, a resident of Vyazma, being a native of the Lviv region, used his authority in a separate religious group to publicly express his disagreement with the actions of Russian military personnel participating in a special military operation on the territory of the ‘Ukraine. Smolyanin called NWO members war criminals and promoted this claim to the public.

FSB agents identified and stopped this illegal activity. Currently, the citizen is facing an administrative penalty, which involves the payment of a fine of 40,000 rubles.

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