"It's impossible to ruin someone else's life without ruining your own." The Pskov Regional Court upheld Lev Shlosberg's sentence of 11 years and 1 month.
Collegium Pskov regional criminal court consisting of Dmitry Ustinov, Eduard Makarov и Kirill Valikov left the appeals Lev Shlosberg and his lawyers were dismissed, and the verdict in the combined criminal case on “fakes” and repeated “discrediting of the army” was unchanged.
Over the course of five hearings, virtually all of the defense's motions were rejected. The appeals process was conducted in an atmosphere of demonstrative disregard for all principles of justice, without exception. stressed on the party channel the chairman of Yabloko Nikolay RybakovShlosberg's final statement was posted on the party's website:
"To remain human, you don't need to perform a heroic feat. It's enough not to create evil, not to participate in evil, not to commit unnatural acts... It's impossible to ruin someone else's life without ruining your own... <> A person makes a decision—to write or not to write a knowingly false denunciation. To give knowingly false testimony or not to lie. To create false evidence or not to create it. To give a knowingly false expert opinion or not to sign off on the lie... <> To take the sin upon one's soul or not? After all, it's not the one who is the target of the sin who lives with the sin, but the one who committed it. There is no collective guilt or collective responsibility. Guilt and responsibility can only be personal."
The case of "fakes" and "discrediting"
Shlosberg sent He was sent to pretrial detention in December 2025. The criminal case for "fake news" was sparked by a repost of a cover from the British newspaper Daily Mirror on his Telegram channel. Security officials considered the publication of a debate about the war on the "Living Nail" channel on Odnoklassniki to be "discrediting" the army. Shlosberg advocated for a swift ceasefire. The politician's sentence carried out August 17, 2026. Before this, the politician was sentenced to 420 hours of community service on charges of failing to perform the duties of a foreign agent.