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Espionage case against the Russophile Movement leader starts on October 26

Nikolai Malinov
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The espionage case against the leader of Russophiles for the Revival of the Fatherland party, Nikolai Malinov, starts on October 26th, reporter Silvia Velikova informed. Malinov is accused of a crime against the republic. He is accused of putting himself in the service of a foreign organization in order to pass on information that is a state secret.

Nikolai Malinov was nominated by the Russophiles for the Revival of the Fatherland party as a presidential candidate. The investigation against him started in September 2019. Malinov's trip to Moscow, where he received an award from Vladimir Putin, placed Judge Andon Mitalov, who issued the travel permit in the US blacklist.



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