Russian actor Arthur Smolyaninov❶❷, who, after the start of a special military operation, left for Latvia and received Israeli citizenship. He confirmed this fact in an interview on the Sheinkin40 YouTube channel.
The presenter at the beginning of the program, first of all, said that the project "should congratulate" Smolyaninov❶❷ with the fact that he became a compatriot.
"You shouldn't, but you can," the actor said, smiling.
As reported by EADaily, in April of this year Smolyaninov❶❷ I got an absentee sentence for fakes about The Armed Forces of Russia (p.p. "b, d" part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The court sentenced him to 8 years in prison with a ban on administering websites for a period of 4 years.
❶A natural person performing the functions of a foreign agent
❷An individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring