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Vasyl Muravytsky is accused of treason and inciting national enmity: since 2014, he has been actively posting anti-Ukrainian content and giving comments on the events in Ukraine to pro-Russian mass media. The case has been pending in court since 2017.

As IMI reported, Vasyl Muravytsky was arrested in August 2017. The journalist has been actively posting anti-Ukrainian content and giving comments on the events in Ukraine to pro-Russian mass media since 2014. The blogger is accused of violating Part 1 of Art. 111 ("Treason"), Part 2 of Art. 110 ("Encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine"), Part 2 of Art. 161 ("Violation of the equality of citizens based on their racial and national background") and Part 1 of Art. 258-3 ("Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization") of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

On 1 August 2017 SSU detained a 36-year-old blogger and journalist from Zhytomyr, Vasyl Muravytsky, and searched his house. He was accused of preparation and dissemination of materials of anti-Ukrainian content instructed by news resource “Russia Today”. The chosen preventive measure was the detention. Muravytsky was accused of committing crimes under four articles of CC of Ukraine: pt. 1 of Article 111, pt. 2 of Article 110; pt. 2 of Article 161 (deliberate actions directed at inciting the ethnic, racial or religious enmity) and pt.1 of Article 258-3 (participation in a terrorist group or organization).

The notice of the SSU (unfortunately, it was removed from SSU’s site) stated that its employees have stopped the activity which threatened informational security of the state in Zhytomyr oblast. It was established that a journalist referred to as “information mercenary”, “between 2014 and October 2016 published biased propaganda publications under the guidance of the Russian news agencies”, receiving topics and desired contents by mail or by courier, and sometimes he was allowed to choose a topic. He allegedly received payment via the international online payment services. His materials were published on six web sites controlled by the Russian Federation and the groups acting on non-government-controlled territories of Ukraine.
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According to SSU, the expertise found that semantic and linguistic content “also contained calls for the national enmity within Ukraine and between Ukraine and neighboring allied countries.

“Українські новини” published the notice of suspicion which was given to Muravytsky. He is suspected of preparation of the publications in which he negatively covered the activity of current state authorities and armed formations, and justified the legal nature and lawfulness of Russia’s annexation of the Crimea, creation of the terrorist organizations “Donetsk People’s Republic” and “Luhansk People’s Republic”. Furthermore, according to the investigation by SSU, Muravytsky expressed ideas on the need for illegal accession of certain regions of Ukraine to Poland and Romania.
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On 27 June 2018 the court replaced the detention with round-the-clock house arrest, then gradually eased the house arrest regime, and on 2 July 2020 replaced house arrest with personal undertaking.