A court in Tula fined the editor-in-chief of Tula Pravda 150 thousand due to a hunger strike by a candidate for the regional Duma.

The Central District Court of Tula fined the editor-in-chief of Tula Pravda and the secretary of the regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fedorov 150 thousand rubles under the article of repeated violation of the rules of the action. This was reported by Vera Serebrovskaya, a representative of the regional party committee.

OVD-InfoThe reason for the fine was the hunger strike of animal rights activist and regional Duma deputy candidate Yuri Koretskikh, who chained himself near the government building in protest against unfair elections and the construction of a landfill. Fedorov, together with Communist Party deputy Alexei Lebedev and Svetlana Belous, came to support the Koretskys. All four that day.

Later Alexey Lebedev was detained for 200 thousand rubles, and Yuri Koretskikh for 20 thousand.

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