The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin has instructed to open a criminal case against the actor Artur Smolyaninov.
“In an interview with one of the Western publications, Smolyaninov made a number of statements directed against Russia,” He says in a departmental notice.
Artur Smolyaninov, who opposes the war, is now out of Russia. January 6 gave interview publication “Novaya Gazeta. Europe”, where, among other things, he stated that if he were to participate in the war, he would fight on the side of Ukraine. In Riga, he also starred in an anti-war film clip “The tight leg!”.
In October, it was reported that an administrative case had been opened against Smolyaninov in Russia under the article on “discrediting” the Russian Armed Forces. For what reason this protocol was drawn up against Smolyaninov is not known. Sub edition allegedthat the reason for the opening of the case may be the artist’s anti-war statements, that he done in an interview with the YouTube channel “Tell Gordeeva”.
Commenting on the news to Meduza about the initiation of an administrative case against him for “discrediting” the Russian army, Smolyaninov, in particular, She said: “For me there are no laws of this state. They, like the state itself, are criminal in nature, which means that they have neither moral nor legal force.”
