The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested former lawyer Mark Feigin in absentia (included by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in the list of foreign agent media) under an article about fakes about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the court document says. The court registered the prosecution’s motion on January 26 and immediately granted it.
Feigin is accused of disseminating information about the Russian army that is untrue. He is charged with Part 2 of Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The maximum penalty is up to ten years in prison.
In October 2023, the Ministry of Internal Affairs put Feigin on the wanted list for the same article on disseminating fake news.
Mark Feigin is a lawyer, former State Duma deputy. He was a member of the liberal Democratic Union (DS) party, where the leader was the famous dissident and human rights activist Valeria Novodvorskaya. Feigin later joined the Democratic Russia party and worked there as co-chairman of the Samara branch. In 1994, he was elected to the State Duma together with Yegor Gaidar’s Democratic Choice of Russia (DCR). In 1995, he supplied humanitarian aid to Russian soldiers during the Chechen campaign.
In the 2000s, Feigin began his legal career. He defended, among others, members of the group Pussy Riot, Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko and businessman Mukhtar Ablyazov. In 2018, the lawyer was stripped of his lawyer status for rude statements on social networks about the Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Shariy.
Previously, Feigin emigrated from Russia due to disagreement with the current policy of the authorities.
Source: Rosbalt
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