A historian of Russian cuisine was sentenced to six years in a penal colony for a post about the massacre in Bucha
The Zyuzinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Pavel Syutkin, a 60-year-old candidate of historical sciences and author of books on the history of cuisine, to six years in prison for an anti-war post on social media.
The trial was held behind closed doors due to the participation of an FSB employee as a witness in the case. The criminal prosecution was triggered by a post on a Telegram channel from April 2022, in which the scholar compared the war launched by Russia to the actions of Nazi Germany, mentioning the bombing of Kyiv and the execution of over two hundred civilians in Bucha.
The defendant did not admit guilt and stated in a letter from the pretrial detention center that the case is purely political in nature and constitutes punishment for his open anti-war stance. Syutkin has been in custody since the fall of 2025, and Rosfinmonitoring later added him to its list of “extremists and terrorists.” Previously, pro-government Russian activists and Z-bloggers had repeatedly filed complaints against him, accusing him of “Russophobia.”
This was reported by the publication Astra.
Previously, the Russian occupation authorities sentenced a 24-year-old resident of the Donetsk region to 14 years in a maximum-security prison for allegedly passing information about the location of Russian troops in the Donetsk region to Ukrainian intelligence.
Previously, two residents of the Kramatorsk district were found guilty of treason and sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.
The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Andriy Gulak, a 61-year-old resident of the Donetsk region, to 5 years and 4 months in prison. The Russian side accused the man of allegedly participating in a terrorist group due to his service in the “Azov” regiment.
