Russian convicted for social network post about Ukrainian Crimea moves to Kyiv
Resident of the Russian city of Tver Andrey Bubeev, convicted for two years and three months for posting a recording about the annexation of Ukraine on the social network VKontakte, has left Russia with his family, activist Anna Borko reported.
According to another activist, Ekaterina Bashilova, Bubeev’s family has left for Kyiv.
Andrey Bubeev was recently released from prison. The man was accused of public exhortations to carry out extremist activity (section 2 article 280 of the Russian Criminal Code) and public exhortations to carry out activity intended to violate the territorial integrity of Russia (section 2 article 280.1 of the Russian Criminal Code), Novaya Gazeta reports.
The reason for the criminal prosecution was Bubeev’s posting of the material “Crimea is Ukraine” by publicist Boris Stomakhin, as well as a picture on the same topic on his page on Vkontakte.
Bubeev has not admitted his guilt, and believes that he will be persecuted for his convictions.
In August 2015 Andrey Bubeev was convicted for posting similar materials and pictures, and was sentenced to 10 months of imprisonment for incitement or hostility (article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code).