In Kostroma, local residents were fined for using swastikas on the Internet

In April 2015, two young men in Kostroma were fined for posting a swastika image on the VKontakte social network.

In April 2015, the prosecutor's office of the city of Kostroma reported that during an anti-extremist check, it discovered that two young people on the social network "VKontakte" posted in the public domain " images containing paraphernalia and symbols confusingly similar to Nazi paraphernalia and symbols, which is associated in the subconscious of the viewer as a symbol used by the troops of Nazi Germany during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. "

The prosecutor of the city of Kostroma, based on the results of an audit against the Kostroma residents, opened cases of an administrative offense under Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of paraphernalia or symbols confusingly similar to Nazi paraphernalia or symbols).

Young people were brought to administrative responsibility in the form of a fine of 1,000 rubles each.

Sources

• In Kostroma, two young people were punished for posting on the website “http: // vkontakte.ru" images of symbols similar to the Nazi // Official website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Kostroma Region. 2015. 9 April.