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Vasily Kuzmichenok / Moskva News Agency    A Moscow judge on Tuesday (https://t.me/moscowcourts/9126)  sentenced  culinary historian and former Moscow Times columnist Pavel Syutkin to six years in prison on charges of spreading “fake news” about the Russian military.  State prosecutors (https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/09/prosecutors-seek-8-year-prison-sentence-for-culinary-historian-pavel-syutkin-a93671)  sought  an eight-year prison sentence for Syutkin over Telegram posts about alleged atrocities committed against civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha during the opening weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Russia denies committing war crimes in Bucha.  A judge at Moscow’s Zyuzinsky District Court found Syutkin guilty of spreading “false information” about the Russian Armed Forces, the court’s press service said in a statement on Telegram.  In addition to the six-year prison term, the court banned Syutkin from managing websites for four years.  Syutkin’s attorney Yevgeniya Grigoryeva (https://tass.ru/proisshestviya/28113765)  told  the state-run news agency TASS that the defense plans to appeal the ruling, which she said will likely be heard in the Moscow City Court.   opinion (https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/16/my-case-is-unquestionably-political-russian-culinary-historian-pavel-syutkin-on-his-prosecution) (‘My Case Is Unquestionably Political’: Culinary Historian Pavel Syutkin on His Prosecution) ‘My Case Is Unquestionably Political’: Culinary Historian Pavel Syutkin on His Prosecution  Read more    The trial was held behind closed doors. Ahead of the verdict, Syutkin (https://t.me/mediazona_exclusive/6099)  told  reporters the secrecy was maintained due to an FSB witness in the case.  “But that’s just the formal pretext. I think the real reason is that the court itself feels some discomfort about handing down a sentence in this kind of political case,” Syutkin told reporters in a video shared by the Mediazona outlet.  “This verdict is honestly a certain mark of quality for the work I’ve been doing, an effort… aimed at reviving civil society in our country,” Syutkin (https://t.me/mediazona_exclusive/6100)  said  in another video, followed by applause from those who went to hear the verdict in court.  Syutkin was (https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/08/prominent-russian-culinary-historian-hit-with-criminal-charges-for-army-fakes-a90755)  arrested  last October and added to the Russian financial monitoring agency Rosfinmonitoring’s list of “terrorists and extremists,” a move that froze his bank accounts.  The Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights organization Memorial has (https://memopzk.org/en/news/pavel-syutkin-is-a-political-prisoner/) (designated) designated Syutkin a political prisoner.  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