A resident of the Altai Territory was fined for a post on VKontakte about the oppression of local people

The Ongudaisky District Court of the Altai Territory issued a decision on a fine of 10,000 rubles due to two publications by 23-year-old local resident Arzhana Rykova about the oppression of the Altai people on VKontakte. about this on his Telegram channel . wrote Pavle Chikov, head of the Agora international human rights group,

First, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on inciting hatred or enmity (Article 282 of the Criminal Code). Chikov reports that the Investigative Committee saw "in the free translation of posts into Russian incitement of hatred on ethnic grounds." But after the partial decriminalization of Article 282 of the Criminal Code, the case was dismissed and a protocol on an administrative offense was drawn up against Rykova (Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

As the head of Agora writes, this is the first time that an extremist case has been reclassified from criminal to administrative.

• In December 2018, Article 282 of the Criminal Code on inciting hatred or enmity was partially decriminalized . Now criminal liability should come only after a repeated violation. The first should be considered within the framework of the Code of Administrative Offenses. and