Fine for using swastikas on social networks

In March 2014, Yaroslav Fedchenko, a local resident in Belgorod, was fined for using a swastika on a social network.

A resident of the Belgorod region, Yaroslav Fedchenko (born 1993), posted a Nazi symbol on his Internet page. The account was discovered by the police during the monitoring of the Network. They established that the page in one of the social networks belongs to Fedchenko, the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia reports.

" The image, which reproduces the symbols of the National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany, was handed over to scientists for examination. After that, the case of propaganda and public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols was sent to the district court," reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Belgorod Region .

The young man was brought to administrative responsibility and fined two thousand rubles.

Sources

• Belgorod citizen fined for posting a swastika on his social media page // TRK Mir Belogorya. 2014. March 24.