Moscow’s Basmanny Court found Ukrainian TV presenter Maria Efrosinina guilty of “knowingly disseminating false information based on political hatred regarding the use of the Russian Armed Forces” and sentenced her in absentia to seven years in a general regime colony. TASS said the court’s press service.
A criminal case was opened against the presenter on April 7, 2022, the basis of the investigation were Efrosinina’s posts on the social network Instagram (the owner of the company Meta is known as an extremist in Russia and is banned).
He was placed on the federal wanted list in Russia in July 2022, and on the international wanted list in March 2023. In January 2023, contributed He was added to Rosfin’s terrorist and extremist watch list.
Court in Moscow on 17 May 2023 arrested in absentia Efrosin was required to be extradited to Russia or detained in the country for two months, thus meeting the investigation’s request. He himself commented on the arrest in absentia, stating that he “could not do anything but rejoice” and promised to “continue in the same spirit”.
After the Russian court’s prison sentence decision, the TV presenter wrote on Instagram that she “doesn’t care about all these sentences.”
What is Efrosinina known for?
Maria Efrosinina was born and raised in Kerch, Crimea, but in her own words, she has not been there since the annexation of the peninsula to Russia following the referendum in 2014.
He started his professional career at the age of 19 on the First National TV Channel of Ukraine, then worked on the channels Yeni Kanal, ICTV, Inter and STB. He also collaborated with Russian channels Muz-TV, NTV and DTV.
In 2005, Efrosinina hosted the Eurovision music contest in Kiev together with Pavel Shilko. In 2006, she was among the 100 most influential women in Ukraine according to Focus magazine, and in 2009 she was named “TV presenter of the Year” by EGO magazine.
The TV presenter has been the first honorary ambassador of the UN Population Fund in Ukraine since 2018. In 2020, the country’s President Vladimir Zelensky awarded Efrosinina the Order of Merit, 3rd degree.
The TV presenter has 2.1 million subscribers on Instagram, and 723 thousand people are subscribed to her YouTube channel. She is also the founder of the Masha Foundation, a charity that helps women and children affected by violence.
False cases against Ukrainians
Investigative Committee of Russia in July 2023 excited A criminal case has been opened against Ukrainian journalist Yanina Sokolovskaya. According to investigators, he spread on social networks “deliberately false information about the actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation against the civilian population of Ukraine.” Searches were carried out in Sokolovskaya’s apartment in Moscow.
Also in July, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs placed Ukrainian journalist Natalya Moseychuk on its wanted list. HE happened The defendant opened a criminal case in March 2022 for “incitement to hatred or hostility.”
Moscow Basmanny Court in absentia in July 2022 arrested Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon (known as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation) was accused of spreading false information about the Russian army and creating an extremist organization. The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs put him on the wanted list. According to the Investigative Committee, a criminal case was opened because, after the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, Gordon called for “an armed attack on Russia, to launch an aggressive war against it using nuclear weapons.”
Source: Gazeta
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