Polat Jamalov
Biography
Head of the Kazakh community in Moscow. In September 2023, he was prosecuted for spreading deliberately false information about the Russian Armed Forces. The reason was a post with a photo of a certain document reporting the number of dead Russian military personnel. On 5 June 2025, Dzhamalov was sentenced to seven years in a general regime colony.
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