of knowingly false information
Investigators opened the case against Vasilyev on 20 June 2024 under Criminal Code 207.3 (“Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”), Part 2, Paragraph e (“for reasons of political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred or enmity, or for reasons of hatred or enmity against any social group”). Vasilyev made the Facebook post about attacks on Ukrainian cities, and others on VKontakte which led to an earlier administrative conviction, “solely out of religious conviction”, he told Forum 18 through his lawyer Aleksanyan on 20 November 2024. He added that he is “not a politician and is engaged only in religion”. สล็อต