A Russian court announced that he was found guilty of betrayal of a photographer, Grigori Skartsov, condemning him to 16 years in prison after Skavarvsov had stated that he had transferred detailed information about the former secret shelters of the Soviet era. Skavarvsov, who was arrested in 2023, denied that he had committed an offense. In an interview with December 2024 to the Pervy Otdel team, a group of exiled Russian lawyers, he said he had transferred information that was either publicly available on the internet or available by the Russian author of a book on the Soviet Union’s underground facilities for use in the event. He did not name the American journalist, whom the Russian authorities have in turn described as a “foreign agent”, a characterization that refers to the Soviet Union. Court of PERM said in a statement that Skavarcov will serve his sentence in a highest security camp and that his betrayal […]
Source: News Beast
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