A musician from Chuvashia was fined for a meme about "Princess Ziga"

The court in Chuvashia fined the participant in the punk group “Barricades of Protest” Ilnur Kamaldinov from Novocheboksarsk for 1.5 thousand rubles for memes in VKontakte. He reported this "MBH Media".

“At first, propaganda was charged to me, and now it is not propaganded by prohibited ideology, but by public demonstration of prohibited symbols. I explained to them that I would not promote anything. And the prosecutor jumped up as well: "There is a public demonstration." And the prosecutor made petitions that they would not conduct any examination, ”said Kamaldinov.

The musician was found guilty of the public demonstration by the Nazi symbolism (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Earlier, Kamaldinov also started a case of the desecration of religious symbols (part 2 of Article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), the date of the court has not yet been scheduled for it.

In particular, things were instituted for the image of a swastika on a box of tea with the signature “Princess Ziga. Selective Arian ”, a picture with Patriarch Cyril with the signature“ Thank you to the Church ”, as well as a photograph of the procession with the signature“ A psychiatric hospital on a walk, but under the supervision of the orderlies ”.