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For five months, Moscow's Zakoretsky Court continued the arrest of a French citizen Lauren Vascular, a journalist and consultant of a non-profit organization "Humanitarian Dialogue", arrested in early June on charges of "collecting information in the field of military and military-technical activity of the Russian Federation" without registration. foreign agent. " RFI writes about it. Previously, Vascular pleaded guilty, stating that he did not intend to interfere with the investigation.

He said he did not know that he had to take care of his inclusion in the register of "inagents" for his work. The data studied by Vascular did not belong to the secret. The President and the Foreign Ministry demanded the release of Vascular, calling the reasons for his detention "arbitrary. " Lawyer Alexei Sinitsyn asked to change the precautionary measure of vision.

The defender argued that the Frenchman's brothers have no reason: investigative actions are over, prevent them and will not be able to influence the client witnesses. The Frenchman's wife, Russian, is ready to give her home for house arrest. The sentence was also asked to mitigate because the vision has underage children, one of whom with disabilities. But the court left a French citizen Lauren Visetier until February 21, 2025. He faces up to five years in prison.

Laurent Vinya - Doctor of Political Science, author of a number of scientific articles and four books, an employee of the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue based in Geneva. It specializes in Russia, Chechnya, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Previously, Vascular worked with NATO and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The FSB accuses Laurent Vascade of collecting any "information of a military and military-technical nature, which can be used by foreign special services at the detriment of" RF security. The FSB claims that a French political scientist "during his visits to Moscow has established numerous contacts with representatives of the expert and scientific community (political scientists, sociologists, economists, military experts, etc. ), as well as civil servants.

" The Criminal Code noted that this information, if receiving them by foreign sources, can be used against the security of the state. They also stated that Vascular "during the interrogation he pleaded in full. " Vascular case was the second case of a person's detention in Russia because she did not bring her to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation as a "foreign agent".