A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced the founder of an opposition social media platform to nearly nine years in jail on charges of spreading "false" information about the army, Russian news agencies reported.A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced the founder of an opposition social media platform to nearly nine years in jail on charges of spreading “false” information about the army, Russian news agencies reported.
He reportedly shared posts critical of what Russian President Vladimir Putin describes as Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. A court in Moscow “found Ivanov guilty… and sentenced him to imprisonment for eight years and six months,” the TASS news agency quoted the court’s press service as saying.“You must understand that Russia is not Putin. Tens of millions of Russians are against this criminal war,” Ivanov was cited as saying in court by the independent news platform Mediazona.