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Moscow court sentences sports coach to five years in a penal colony for spreading military ‘fake news’

The 235th Garrison Military Court has sentenced Oleg Gulik to five years in a penal colony for spreading military ‘fake news’ (Article 207.3, Part 2(e) of the Russian Criminal Code), TASS reports, citing court documents.

According to the prosecution, in 2023, Oleg Gulik used his personal Telegram account to exchange messages with several users and ‘motivated by political hatred, began spreading knowingly false reports about the Russian army’s involvement in a missile strike on a residential building in Dnipro, Ukraine, presenting them as reliable information’. Oleg Gulik pleaded guilty.

According to publicly available sources, Oleg Gulik, 42, worked as an athletics coach for the Moscow City branch of the Dynamo sports society. In 2023, he was also listed as a senior coach of the Central District sports team attached to a directorate of Russia’s National Guard (Rosgvardia).

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