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Ivanov Roman Viktorovich

Date of birth: March 4, 1973 (53 years old)
Occupation: журналистика
Article of the Criminal Code:  207.3 ч. 2 para. «д»
Form of repression:  deprivation of liberty
Pursuit stage:  решение суда вступило в силу
Date of arrest:  January 1, 1
Sentence:  7 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  March 6, 2024
Current location:  Penal Colony No. 6, Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Moscow Oblast

Ivanov Roman Viktorovich, born March 4, 1973, lives in the city of Korolyov, Moscow region. Journalist for RusNews and author of the protest media "Chestnoe Korolyovskoe!" (a word play with an analogue of "scout's honor" and his city's name). Married, has a mother born in 1945 in his care.

He was sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony for three episodes of paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation based on political hatred and enmity").

In custody since April 11, 2023.

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