A court in Moscow issued an arrest warrant for two critics of the Kremlin

A Moscow court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two self-exiled Kremlin critics, economist Konstantin Sonin and politician Leonid Gozman, who are accused of spreading false information about Russian soldiers involved in Russia's war in Ukraine.

Sonin was an employee of the Higher School of Economics and the New School of Economics in Moscow. Since 2015, he has been a professor at the University of Chicago.

Gozman left Russia last September after serving two consecutive 15-day prison terms on charges of equating Soviet-era Russia with Nazi Germany.

Both Sonin and Gozman openly condemned Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.