A criminal case has been opened against a Kuzbass resident fined for a post about Putin.

In the Kemerovo region, a criminal case was initiated against a resident of the city of Osinniki, Ilya Putevsky, for insulting a representative of the authorities. about this . writes The head of Agora, Pavel Chikov,

Putevsky was interrogated as a suspect in insulting a judge (Article 319 of the Criminal Code) because he allegedly showed the judge Ksenia Raymer when he was riding a bicycle, and the judge was driving a car. Putevsky himself denies this.

Earlier, Judge Reimer fined a man 30,000 rubles under the article on disrespect for authorities (part 3 of article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of the repost of a video on VKontakte about dispersing a protest rally with the comment “Putin is a cowardly bitch.”

• In March, Vladimir Putin signed into law a law punishing disrespect for the authorities. For the first offense under this law, a fine of 30 to 100 thousand rubles is provided.