In Arkhangelsk, the court fined Navalny's headquarters volunteer Mikhail Listov a thousand rubles under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of Nazi symbols) for photographs with a swastika. about this On January 24, the employees of the headquarters themselves told . The meeting itself took place on January 19.
In 2016, Listov made two publications on the VKontakte social network. In one of them, Soviet soldiers hold lowered Nazi banners during the Victory Parade in 1945. In another post, there was a frame from a dance show on the Russia 1 TV channel, which showed a number with a participant in Nazi uniforms.
Listov noted that the purpose of the publication was "a reminder of historical events, and not a purposeful demonstration of prohibited paraphernalia." The man also said that he hates Nazism in any of its manifestations.
In August 2017, a court in Severodvinsk convicted another volunteer of Navalny’s Arkhangelsk headquarters, Dmitry Sekushin, under the same article (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The activist was also accused of displaying Nazi symbols due to the publication of two pictures on the social network.