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Russia Sentences Luxembourg Cross-Border Worker to 16 Years in Prison

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Mikhail Lochtchinine, a Belgian-Russian national, was detained during a trip to see his father in St. Petersburg last summer

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A Russian court has sentenced 48-year-old Mikhail Loshchinin, who holds both Russian and Belgian citizenship, to sixteen years in a penal colony for high treason. Russian media reported this on Tuesday. However, his family and friends in Belgium call the trial ‘a joke’: “The accusations are completely unfounded.”

·Amersfoort, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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A court in Pskov, in western Russia, has sentenced 48-year-old Mikhail Loshchinin to sixteen years in a penal colony. Russian media reported this on Tuesday. Loshchinin holds both Russian and Belgian citizenship. “This trial is a joke,” say those close to him in Belgium.

·Kobbegem, Belgium
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A Russian court has sentenced Mikhail Loshchinin, who holds both a Belgian and a Russian passport, to 16 years in prison for...

·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Mikhail Loshchynin was detained when he came to Russia to visit his sick father in the summer of 2025. Security services searched his phone, which contained correspondence and Ukrainian contacts to his former partner's family, according to the Novaya Gazeta website. The man was charged with high treason. According to his family and lawyers, he was beaten and tortured during the investigation. The ASTRA Telegram channel reported that Loshchynin s…

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The Pskov regional court sentenced Mikhail Loshchinin, who had been detained on the Russian border in the summer of 2025, to 16 years of imprisonment on charges of "gosmartism".

·Riga, Latvia
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The Pskov Regional Court sentenced programmer Michael Loshchinin to 16 years in a case of treason, reported "Ostor...

·Moscow, Russian Federation (the)
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Wort.lu broke the news in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg on Tuesday, June 2, 2026.
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