At the end of June, a blogger from Yoshkar-Ola, Andrii Filipov, was found guilty of spreading “military fakes” for political reasons and fined 1.8 million rubles. “Fakes” the court recognized a video in which the blogger tried to compare information from the official summaries of the Ministry of Defense of Russia and Ukrainian media.
It is significant that Filipov is a combat veteran who took part in the 2008 Russian-Georgian armed conflict. He has the medals “Participant of the counter-terrorist operation” and “For participation in forcing Georgia to peace.”







