Mikhail Svetov
- Criminal Code
- Article 354.1 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Cases against "foreign agents"
- Region
- Moscow
- City
- Moscow
Case summary
He is an opposition politician, blogger, chairman of the social and political movement Civil Society, one of the main Russian-speaking popularisers of right-wing libertarianism. On 2 August 2023, it became known that Svetov was prosecuted for rehabilitation of Nazism because of his performance of a song about Bandera in September 2021 in his Telegram channel. Svetov believes that the case was initiated because of two-years-old denunciations from followers of Vladislav Pozdnyakov, the founder of the Men's State movement.
Others charged under Article 354.1 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
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