The prosecutor's office is demanding a review of Maxim Kruglov's case.

The prosecutor's office demanded that the sentence against Yabloko deputy chairman Maxim Kruglov be overturned and the case sent back for retrial. With the sentence, To Maxim Kruglov He was sentenced to seven years in prison, but the state prosecutor disagreed. Yulia Guznyaeva: She demanded eight years for the politician.

As follows from the appeal, which опубликовал lawyer Sergey BadamshinThe prosecutor's office is demanding that the criminal case be reviewed again, in a "different composition of the court."

At the end of June, the judge Elina Babayants recognized Maxim Kruglov was found guilty of "spreading fake news about the army motivated by political hatred." The criminal prosecution stemmed from the politician's posts about the civilian deaths in Bucha, published in April 2022. He called the case absurd and described his prosecution as a "ban on political dissent."