A Russian court has sentenced Armenian-origin blogger Arsen Markaryan to 4.5 years in prison, APA’s Moscow bureau reports.
Markaryan was convicted of rehabilitating Nazism and insulting the memory of a Hero of the Soviet Union and sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison.
According to the prosecution, in 2025 he justified Nazi ideology and used offensive expressions about Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Matrosov in his videos.