The reason for the searches in the capital’s Garage museum has been revealed – Russia today Posting in CHAT: Russia April 27, 2024, 23:59 “Kommersant”: Searches were carried out in “Garage” in the case of ex-publisher of “Mediazona” Verzilov RIA Novosti Read 360 in Searches conducted by FSB officers in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art “Garage” were connected in the case of the former publisher of “Mediazona” *Petra Verzilova*. Kommersant reports this with reference to the press service of the MMSI. “While the investigative actions are completed, the museum continues to operate as usual,” the Garage museum reported on Friday, April 26. FSB officers studied museum documentation; searches in the Verzilov* case took place in March in Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Ulyanovsk and Samara. Since then, only lectures, book presentations and film screenings have taken place here; Verzilov* himself left Russia in 2020, when a criminal case was opened against him for failure to report his second citizenship (Canadian - editor's note). Since 2022, he has stated that he has entered into a contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces and is participating in hostilities. Last fall, the Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced him in absentia to eight and a half years in prison in a forgery case. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, but in the spring of this year the verdict was overturned and the case was sent for a new trial. In early April, Verzilov* was sentenced in absentia to eight years and four months in prison.* “Mediazona” and Pyotr Verzilov were recognized as foreign agents in Russia Author: Lyudmila Shorokhova Source link Source link
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