PoliticsSenior Russian internet regulator programmer gets suspended sentence for Navalny foundation donation
A Moscow court sentenced Leonid Stepanov, a lead programmer at a Roskomnadzor-run agency, to four years suspended for financing extremism. The case concerned two 2021 transfers totaling 1,532 rubles and 43 kopecks to Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, which Russian authorities had already designated an “extremist organization.”
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Senior Russian internet regulator programmer gets suspended sentence for Navalny foundation donation