A criminal case was opened against Roizman, according to him, for one phrase: «invasion of Ukraine.»
Yevgeny Roizman, the face of Russia’s anti-Putin movement, has been charged with «discrediting» the actions of the Russian army, and now faces jail time, according to reports.
Masked security forces removed the former State Duma deputy from his apartment in the city of Yekaterinburg after conducting a search in the early hours of Wednesday morning. They took him to the city’s Nevyansk Icon Museum, which was opened by Roizman in 1999, where searches are also underway, local media reported.
Roizman, a former mayor of Yekaterinburg, and a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine, is being investigated for «discrediting the Russian army,» Russia’s TASS news agency said, citing Yekaterinburg security services.
Speaking to journalists as he was being led away from his apartment, Roizman suggested that he was being charged for calling Putin’s war against Ukraine an «invasion.
