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Konstantin Sonin
Scientists
1972-02-22
Не в России
Moscow
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Economist, professor at the University of Chicago, and formerly a lecturer and vice-chancellor of the Higher School of Economics. In March 2023, a case was brought against him for dissemination of deliberately false information about the Russian Armed Forces. On 25 May 2023 it became known that he was put on a wanted list. On 20 February 2024, Sonin was arrested in absentia. On 23 May 2024, he was sentenced in absentia to eight and a half years in prison.
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