{"id":473860,"date":"2025-07-02T23:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/russia-sentences-a-photographer-to-16-years-for-giving-a-book-to-a-us-journalist\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T23:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:08:58","slug":"russia-sentences-a-photographer-to-16-years-for-giving-a-book-to-a-us-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/russia-sentences-a-photographer-to-16-years-for-giving-a-book-to-a-us-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia sentences a photographer to 16 years for giving a book to a US journalist."},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Moscow<\/strong>.- The Perm Regional Court sentenced photographer Grigori Skvortsov to 16 years in prison for high treason, after giving an American journalist a book freely available in Russia.\n\nAccording to a statement from his associates on <a href=\"https:\/\/web.telegram.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/web.telegram.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telegram<\/a>, the only hope for Skvortsov is a possible prisoner exchange.\n\nThe photographer was arrested in November 2023 in St. Petersburg by the Federal Security Service (FSB), after having handed over a copy of the book <em>Secret Soviet Bunkers: Special Urban Fortification between 1930 and 1960<\/em>, by the Russian historian Dmitri Yurkov. The work was published in 2021 and has been reviewed even by official media such as <em>Komsomolskaya Pravda<\/em> and <em>Rossiyskaya Gazeta<\/em>.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/trump-exige-renuncia-presidente-reserva-federal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump demands immediate resignation of Federal Reserve president<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nAlthough the book contains declassified information and is publicly accessible, it is believed that Skvortsov&#8217;s critical stance on the war in Ukraine may have influenced his judicial persecution.\n\nIt&#8217;s not the first time the content of this work has generated controversy: in 2022, authorities tried to censor an online conference by Y\u00farkov for allegedly revealing sensitive information about military infrastructure.\n\nThe case of Skvortsov adds to a growing wave of treason convictions in Russia, many of them for actions that were not previously considered crimes.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow.- The Perm Regional Court sentenced photographer Grigori Skvortsov to 16 years in prison for high treason, after giving an American journalist a book freely available in Russia. According to a statement from his associates on Telegram, the only hope for Skvortsov is a possible prisoner exchange. 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