An amateur radio operator imprisoned for relaying anti-war messages has actually been released from jail in northwestern Russia, the news website Mediazona reported Friday.Vladimir Rumyantsev, 64, was sentenced to three years in prisonin December 2022 on charges of spreading out false details about the Russian armed force.
He denied the charges and was designated a political prisoner by the Memorial human rights group.Speaking after his release from a chastening nest in the town of Ustyuzhna, around 340 kilometers (211 miles) north of Moscow, Rumyantsev said his time behind bars went efficiently.
[But] God prohibited others land here, he added.
Whats ahead is unidentified I dont understand how life will unfold yet.Before his imprisonment, Rumyantsev worked various tasks, consisting of at factories, as a trolleybus operator and at a boiler facility.AfterRussias full-blown intrusion of Ukraine in February 2022, Rumyantsev began utilizing a radio transmitter to broadcastcontent from independent media outlets, including Meduza, Ekho Moskvy and the Russian-language service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).