In December of last year, the Meshchansky District Court in Moscow sentenced Yashin to eight and a half years in a general regime penal colony. The sentence was related to a case concerning the dissemination of fake information about the Russian army, under Article 207.3, Part 2, Item “d” of the Russian Criminal Code—public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Russian army motivated by political or other hatred.
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