In Chelyabinsk, the administrator of a group on VKontakte was fined under an article about fake news

The Soviet District Court of Chelyabinsk fined Sergey Belogorokhov, the community administrator on VKontakte, for 40,000 rubles under an article about fake news. about this . writes Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora International Human Rights Group,

Belogorokhov, an activist of the Stop GOK movement, administered the Green City group, where he published a post on the collapse of the soil in the village of Roza.

“Consequences of the explosions on the evening of 10 July. […] who guarantees that after the start of the permanent work of the Tominsky mine, Rosa will not move out of the cut along with people, ”the post said, to which a video from the site of the failure was attached.

against Belogorokhov In October, a protocol was drawn up on the dissemination of fake news (part 9 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). He said that the case was initiated at the initiative of a subsidiary of the Russian Copper Company. In the material of Novaya Gazeta, the residents of Roza said that it was this enterprise that was engaged in explosions in a quarry and a mine, due to which failures appear, and the village "goes underground."

According to Agora, this is the 11th case under the fake news article and the sixth fine.

• STOP GOK activists oppose the construction of the Tominsky mining and processing plant. seven kilometers from Chelyabinsk. They fear pollution of the air, soil and reservoirs, where acids can get, with the help of which copper is mined. Ore is mined with the help of explosions - there is a possibility of destruction of houses.
• The fake news law was passed in March 2019. It provides for fines for the dissemination in the media and the Internet of "knowingly unreliable publicly significant information." The fine will range from 3 to 5 thousand rubles for ordinary citizens, from 30 to 50 thousand for officials, from 400 thousand to one million rubles for legal entities. In all cases, the confiscation of the “subject of the offense”, that is, the device with which the fake was spread, is envisaged.