The Samara Regional Court exempted lawyer Vyacheslav Bunakov from punishment in the case of military “fakes” (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the human rights project “Network Freedoms”.
A criminal case was opened against Bunakov because of his posts on VKontakte about the deaths of people in the Ukrainian cities of Kramatorsk, Severodonetsk and Lisichansk. Their lawyer published them in the summer of 2022, and in May 2024 he was sentenced to ten months of compulsory labor with the withholding of 20 percent of his salary to the state.
As Network Freedoms write, the appeal court released Bunakov from punishment in due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. He himself did not admit his guilt.