An Orthodox activist was fined in the Samara region

Andrey Voronin has been brought to justice for displaying Nazi symbols.

October 13, 2017 Stavropol District Court Samara region fined a thousand rubles under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or demonstration of Nazi symbols) of a resident of the village of Yagodnoye Stavropolsky district, Orthodox activist Andrey Voronin.

The reason was that Voronin published on his page in "VKontakte" post from the public "Pre-revolutionary Russia". The post consisted of a picture with two posters - a Nazi one with Hitler and a Soviet one with Stalin - and a text in which drew parallels between the two regimes. Neither the text nor the post as a whole were used to promote Nazism. law enforcement claims and court were associated with the fact that on the sleeve of Hitler on the poster was depicted swastika.

In such cases, we regard the prosecution under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses as unlawful. Unfortunately, the Russian legislation imposes a ban on any display of Nazi symbols regardless of context.

Note that attention law enforcement apparently attracted by the activism Voronin. The police told him that they had been monitoring the contents of his pages and asked if he was going to set fire to cinemas in connection with that condemns the film "Matilda".

Sources

• According to social media.