The Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow registered the materials of the administrative case against ex-GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov. Mediazona found information about the protocol in the database of the capital’s courts.
According to the card on the court’s website, Kvachkov is accused of “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). A hearing in the case has not yet been scheduled. It is unknown what became the reason for bringing him to administrative responsibility. In August, the colonel was fined 40 thousand rubles under the same article; the decision was appealed by Kvachkov’s defense.
Then the reason for drawing up a protocol was the publications posted on Odnoklassniki in the group “Vladimir Vasilyevich Kvachkov”. At the meeting, the colonel himself denied his involvement in this public and called it “some kind of garbage dump.” In addition, at the trial, Kvachkov repeatedly repeated that accusing him of “discrediting” the army was inappropriate, since “the following citizens discredit the armed forces: Putin, Shoigu, Gerasimov.”
74-year-old Kvachkov is a veteran of several wars. After launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he reported that he believed a Russian victory was “inevitable.” At the same time, he repeatedly criticized the Russian government and the army, since “they cannot wage war.”
In 2005, Kvachkov was accused in the case of an attack on Anatoly Chubais, but the jury acquitted him. In 2013, the court sentenced him to eight years in prison on charges of promoting terrorism and attempting to organize an armed rebellion, and later he was found guilty of inciting hatred or hostility.
Kvachkov was released in February 2019. In February 2020, a court in Moscow assigned him administrative supervision for three years and banned him from participating in rallies during this period; supervision was later extended until February 19, 2029.