The creator of "Masyanya" Oleg Kuvaev was sentenced in absentia to a colony

The Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg issued a verdict in absentia against the author and creator of the cartoon “Masyanya” Oleg Kuvaev (included in the register of foreign agents in the Russian Federation). Baza reported this on Monday, October 5.

Kuvaev was found guilty of evading the duties of a foreign agent and public calls for action against the security of Russia. He was sentenced to four years and one month in a general regime colony.

Previously, the prosecutor requested 5 years and 11 months in prison for Kuvaev. According to investigators, he published a video on the Internet in which Masyanya calls on the Russian military to surrender.

Now the author of “Masyanya” is outside the Russian Federation and is wanted.