RUSSIA: Orthodox journalist to face in absentia criminal trial?

Investigators in Moscow have opened a criminal investigation into Orthodox journalist Kseniya Luchenko for online comments from a religious perspective about Russia's war against Ukraine. She could eventually be tried in absentia on charges of "dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces". Investigators had already had her placed on the Interior Ministry's Federal Wanted List, the Federal Financial Monitoring Service "List of Terrorists and Extremists", and the