Russian Journalist Fined For Fake About Coronavirus

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Alexander Pichugin, a well-known journalist and administrator of the Telegram channel in the Nizhny Novgorod region, was found guilty of spreading false information about the coronavirus and fined 300 thousand rubles. The press service of the court said that he has the right to pay the fine in 10-month installments - 30 thousand rubles each month. Half measure or full lockdown? Moscow was left without parties because of COVID-19 Law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case under the article "Public dissemination of knowingly false information about circumstances posing a threat to the life and safety of citizens" after the publication of a material on COVID-19 on the Telegram channel on April 12. The article spoke about the upcoming allegedly "planned action to infect the population with a deadly disease." The author himself later explained that he meant Palm Sunday when people went to church, despite warnings from the authorities about the threat of coronavirus infection in crowded places. Vladimir Beketov, a pulmonologist at the Sechenov University, explained earlier what judgments about the disease are myths, according to the TV channel "360". The doctor recommended not to follow dubious recommendations, but to see a doctor at the first signs of the disease. Professor of Virology at the Gamaleya Institute, Anatoly Alshtein, on the air of the NSN, called the connection between the increase in the incidence of COVID-19 coronavirus in the Russian Federation and the opening of borders as fiction.