Production designer of a Russian TV series arrested on treason charges. He lived in Kyiv and came to Russia to renew his passport.

Russian authorities have arrested the production designer of a popular TV series, Alexander Kondratov, on treason charges. Kondratov, who lived in Kyiv and traveled to Russia to renew his passport, was detained at Vnukovo Airport on May 5. He was accused of posting online content that investigators deemed to be treason, though the specifics of the material were not disclosed.

Kondratov has faced "carousel arrests" and spent over 70 days in pretrial detention before being charged with treason. Notably, he had previously won prestigious awards for his work on the series, which follows criminal investigators in postwar Odesa during the 1940s.

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