Activist fined for Putin mask under article of petty hooliganism

Activist Roman Roslovtsev, who was detained in the Alexander Garden for wearing a Putin mask, was charged with petty hooliganism. According to the police, it was expressed in the fact that he, wearing a Putin mask, waved his arms, spoke loudly and interfered with the passage of citizens. According to Roslovtsev, when he was detained, he was sitting on a bench and talking to people.

Roslovtsev was given a receipt for payment of a fine of 500 rubles. When OVD-Info managed to contact him, they were about to let him go from the Kitai-Gorod OVD. However, at the exit from the police department, his mask was taken away, a separate protocol was drawn up about this and they were told that they would return it when he paid the fine.