Russia’s Supreme Court has deleted data on sentences imposed for crimes against military service, as Mediazona points out.
Since 2014, Russia’s Armed Forces have been posting statistics on work of Russian courts and the rulings pronounced. One of the pages of the corresponding table featured data on sentences under different articles of Russia’s Criminal Code, journalists note.
In January, Mediazona reported that information on crimes against military service had disappeared from the table on the website of Russia’s Armed Forces.
In response to the journalists’ inquiry, the official body said that “placement of statistical data on work of courts and convictions” is conducted, among other things, in accordance with the Defence Ministry’s order and the Federal Security Service’s order about data which, “in case it is received by foreign sources, could be used against the security of the Russian Federation” (from 4 November 2022).
Mediazona notes that, judging by the information posted in the past, servicemen are most often tried on charges of having gone AWOL.