“The Basmanny District Court of Moscow received material at the request of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia on the choice of a preventive measure in the form of detention against Yashin Ilya Valerievich, suspected of committing a crime under paragraph “d” part 2 of Art.

207.3 of the Criminal Code of Russia," TASS reports.

The investigation asks to arrest Yashin until September 12.

Earlier, lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said that Yashin was formally charged under an article on the dissemination of false information about the Russian Armed Forces.