Ruslan Ushakov

Ushakov was the administrator of the Telegram channel True Crime. He wrote under the name of Denis Evsyukov. By the time a "fakes" case was initiated against Ushakov, a case of public justification of terrorism had already been brought against him. As part of that case, he was allegedly detained on 14 December 2022. Initially it was reported that Ushakov was charged under Part 1, Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code, but later it became known that he had been charged with spreading deliberately false information about the Armed Forces with the motive of political hatred (Paragraph E Part 2, Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Ushakov is also accused of incitement to hatred (Paragraph A Part 2, Article 282 of the Criminal Code) and rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 4, Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). During the trial, Ushakov said that he had been tortured by electrocution while in detention. On 29 June 2023, he was sentenced to eight years in a general regime penal colony. On 27 October, the court of appeal reduced the sentence by two months.