“A deputy of the State Duma of Russia was sentenced to 15 years in prison ... The SBU has collected unconditional evidence of the guilt of Denis Maidanov, a deputy of the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia,” the report says.
According to the agency, in February he supported an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to recognize the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics, and also voted for the ratification of the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance with the LNR and the DNR.
Earlier it became known that more than 50 criminal cases were opened in Ukraine against priests of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
It also turned out that since 2014, the SBU had been working for several years to intimidate priests of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.