No 973 Monday 29th May - Sunday 4th June 2023
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he courts in Russia are continuing to issue arrest warrants for individuals allegedly spreading false information about the actions of the Russian army in relation to the war in Ukraine.
RUSSIA ORDERS T ARREST OF TORREVIEJA RESIDENT
Aleksei Vyacheslavovich Panin, a 45-year-old Russian actor and laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, residing in Torrevieja since 2020, where he continues to perform and direct the El Faro cultural association, and who has spoken negatively about Russia on numerous occasions in public, is the latest artist in their sights for detention. The Russian Ministry of the Interior filed a ‘search and arrest‘ warrant against the actor on Monday for having celebrated the explosion of the Crimean bridge in October on his social networks. The Russian Justice considers the actor guilty of the crime of "support of terrorism" for publicly justifying the attack last October that left the Kerch bridge unusable, built by Russia on the Crimean Peninsula, illegally annexed by the Kremlin in 2014. Panin wrote on his Telegram account that he could not hide his joy at an action that Russian President Vladimir Putin described as a "terrorist attack" carried out by the Ukrainian security services. Therefore, the actor was accused of violating article 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code, which punishes "public calls for terrorist activities or public justification of terrorism" with penalties of up to seven years in prison. Russian TV Channel 5 reported that a card with his name appeared in the Ministry 's database on the morning of May 22. "Panin Alexey Vyacheslavovich, born on September 10, 1977, is wanted under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation," it says.
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