MOSCOW. Dec 21 (Interfax) - Moscow's Basmanny District Court next week will begin hearing the criminal case opened against journalist Alexander Nevzorov, designated earlier as a foreign agent media in Russia, on the charges of spreading fakes about the Russian Armed Forces, a court official told Interfax.
"The court hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m. on December 28," the court said.
However, Nevzorov will be tried in absentia, as he earlier left Russia and is believed to be abroad at present.
Nevzorov was earlier arraigned in absentia for publicly disseminating some knowingly false information disguised as true reports about the Russian Armed Forces.
The Russian investigative team earlier placed the journalist on the international wanted list. The Russian court ruled in his absence to select incarceration in a remand prison as a measure of restraint for Nevzorov.
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office said earlier that investigators believe that, "in expressing disagreement with the special military operation being conducted by the Russian Federation and acting under the motive of political hatred," Nevzorov has placed "publications in the form of text records and video clips containing knowingly false information posing as true statements about Russian servicemen deliberately eliminating the maternity wing of Hospital No. 3 in Mariupol and killing civilians in Bucha in Ukraine's Kiev region" on his own Telegram and Youtube channels "meant to be demonstrated to an unlimited number of persons."