A criminal case on charges of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army has been opened against former Moscow councillor Anastasia Bryukhanova, a source close to Russia’s Investigative Committee and a person familiar with the case told RBC.
RIA Novosti also reported about the criminal case against the Russian woman, citing its source.
“I only know as much as what’s reported in the media. The case must be very fresh, it was not there on 1 April even,” Bryukhanova told Novaya Gazeta Europe.
According to RBC, the case was brought forward after the ex-councillor was featured in a video posted on YouTube on 23 December that particularly mentioned the Bucha murders. Baza reports that in the video in question Bryukhanova tells her audience about a New York Times investigation and a report drafted by a special UN commission about the Russian military’s involvement in the civilian murders.
Bryukhanova is currently not in Russia.
Earlier, her colleague Maxim Katz was arrested in absentia on charges of “fakes” about the Russian army.
