Fine for xenophobic texts and drawings on the VKontakte network

On August 20, 2014, in the Kaliningrad region, a user of the social network VKontakte was fined 50,000 rubles.

On August 20, 2014, the prosecutor's office of the Polessky district of the Kaliningrad region announced that it had supported the state prosecution in a criminal case against a 26-year-old local resident.

The case was initiated in March 2014 based on the results of a prosecutor's check.

The court found that in September 2012, the father of four minor children on the social network "VKontakte" on his page under a pseudonym in the public domain " posted the text and accompanying drawings containing calls for violent actions " in relation to the natives of Central Asia, as well as " symbols of Islam and Judaism, placed in ovals separated by a strip, reminiscent of prohibition road signs; the image of a Celtic cross ".

The court found the man guilty of committing a crime under part 1 of article 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities), and, given the presence of young children, sentenced him to a fine of 50,000 rubles.

The verdict did not enter into force. Sources

• A resident of the Polessky district was convicted for public calls to carry out extremist activities // Official site of the prosecutor's office of the Kaliningrad region. 2014. August 20.