The Court of Chuvashia recognized the decision to be legal about a fine for a repost of an excerpt from the American show

On June 29, the Supreme Court of Chuvashia refused to satisfy the appeal of the coordinator of the regional headquarters of Navalny Semyon Kochkin. The activist appealed the decision of the district court, which on May 25 fined him one and a half thousand rubles for the repost of the video “How Chechen girls inflated ISIS militants”, on which the ISIS organization prohibited in Russia appears for several seconds. This was reported by Rosbalt with reference to human rights activist Alexei Glukhov.

The repost on his page on the VKontakte social network an excerpt from the American program Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, entitled “How Chechen girls puffed up ISIS militants” Semyon Kochkin back in 2015.

“In a video that did not pursue the propaganda of ideology and the practice of the Islamic State prohibited in Russia, the organization flag flashed, which served as the reason for attracting under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of symbols of extremist organizations),” said Alexei Glukhov.