Press Secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov called the verdict issued by the journalist Ivan Safronov, “very harsh.” At the same time, he refused to comment on the decision of the court who sentenced Safronov to 22 years in the colony, Russian media write.
Peskov also suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin knows about the verdict Ivan Safronov from media reports. According to him, the closed nature of the trial of Safronov “is due to the severity of those accusations that were charged with him and which were proved by the prosecution and recognized by the court.”
On the eve of September 5, the Moscow City Court sentenced the adviser to the head of Roscosmos, the former correspondent of Kommersant and Vedomosti, Ivan Safronov, to 22 years of a strict security colony for two episodes of the stateism case (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and a fine of 500 thousand . rubles. The court found the journalist guilty of two episodes of cooperation with Czech and German intelligence.