21 November 2024, 18:14
Pensioner from Astrakhan sentenced for pacifist statements
Yuri Strubalin, a pensioner, has been sentenced to three years of restricted freedom for his pacifist inscriptions on walls of houses.
According to investigators, Strubalin used a marker to write his pacifist statements on facades of several houses recognized as architectural monuments and made photos of these inscriptions.
Law enforcers found Strubalin by means of CCTV cameras and opened a case against him for vandalism motivated by political hatred, the "OVD-Info"* project has informed.
The "Caucasian Knot" has also reported that in December 2023, a court in the Akhtubinsky District fined Vitaly Zhuravlyov, a local resident, under the article on discrediting the Russian Army. The reason was in his post placed in the "VKontakte" social network with a photo of President Putin and criticizing Russians.
*Included by the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) into the register of foreign agents.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on November 21, 2024 at 07:36 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
Source: Caucasian Knot
