Moscow’s Gagarinsky Court arrested former lawyer Ilya Novikov (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation) in absentia for an article about fake news about the Russian military. This was reported by the press service of the court. TASS.
“It was decided to arrest Ilya Sergeevich Novikov in absentia,” a court representative said.
He announced that the person concerned will be detained for two months from the moment of extradition or deportation to the territory of the Russian Federation or from the moment of actual detention in Russia.
Ilya Novikova in June 2023 deprived The status of a lawyer in Russia. As stated in the message, the chamber council terminated the lawyer’s status due to inappropriate behavior.
Novikov has been living and working in Kiev since 2021. After the start of the special military operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine in 2022, Kiev announced that it had joined the ranks of the defense forces.
On November 25, 2022, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation added Novikov to the list of individual foreign agents, and on December 1, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia announced he is wanted.
Previously FSB filed a lawsuit to a former player “What? Where? When?” To switch to the Ukrainian side.