Former Kurgan Duma deputy fined for displaying swastikas

In Kurgan, Ivan Kamshilov, a former City Duma deputy, was fined for displaying a swastika.

June 10, 2015 it became known that entered into legal force the decision of the Kurgan City Court, which recognized the former deputy of the Kurgan City Duma Ivan Kamshilov guilty under part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or public display of Nazi symbols) and sentenced him to a fine.

The offense was seen in the fact that the photograph, illustrating material that Kamshilov’s rival in the elections to the Duma of Kurgan, United Russia party Alexander Emelin places election posters in the wrong places, was depicted swastika. The photograph along with the article were published on Kamshilov's website.

The public figure himself does not deny that in the image turned out to be a swastika, but assures that she was there by accident, through an oversight.

The decision of the court seems to us unlawful: the publication of the election article obviously did not pursue the goal of promoting Nazism (and the maximum that can be assumed is that the publishers tried to hint on some negative qualities of Kamshilov's opponent in the elections).

We also recall that we consider the provisions of Russian legislation prohibiting any display of the swastika regardless of context.

Sources

• Kurgan public figure fined for swastika, which unknown people painted on the poster of his political opponent // ZNAK.com. 2015. June 10.