Summary: On April 4, 2024, Dmitry Bogmut, an employee of the B.P. Konstantinov Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics (PINP) (part of the Kurchatov Institute National Research Center), was sent to custody on charges of spreading “fakes” about the army, RBC reports. As of March 31, 2025, Dmitry Bogmut is in a pretrial detention center, Novaya Gazeta reports. Hearings are underway in the Gatchina City Court, Support for political prisoners. Memorial reports.

Details: Dmitry Bogmut worked as a technician in the condensed matter research department of the PNPI. On April 4, 2024, he was charged under paragraph “d” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code, under which Bogmut faces up to ten years in prison. According to investigators, in March-June 2023, Bogmut, while in the building of the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Gatchina, “publicly distributed on a certain website texts, videos and images with deliberately false information about the use of the Russian Armed Forces outside the territory of the Russian Federation.” In particular, this was a video that “contains false information about the goals and progress of the SVO.”

Sources: RBC, Support for political prisoners. Memorial.