Administrative cases under Art. 20.29 Code of Administrative Offences. May 2020

Due to the increase in the number of administrative cases under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (production and distribution of prohibited materials), we combine such cases into a single list for each month.

On May 22, 2020, the Tyulgansky District Court of the Orenburg Region fined local resident Ivan Melnikov 1,000 rubles for posting a banned audio clip on a social network. At the trial, Melnikov pleaded guilty, declared remorse and said that he did not know that the audio recording was on the Federal List of Extremist Materials.
On May 15, 2020, the Frunzensky District Court of the city of Ivanovo fined Nikolai Shishkin 1,000 rubles. According to the court, in the period from April 19, 2016 to March 23, 2020, Shishkin posted on his page on the social network VKontakte a video that was recognized as extremist by the Oktyabrsky District Court of Murmansk on March 15, 2016 and included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials. (Probably we are talking about item 3619 or item 3620 of the Federal List). At the hearing, Shishkin fully admitted his guilt. Shishkin said that the recording was material of an extremist nature, he learned from the police, and deleted it on the same day. He is not a supporter of radical movements.
On May 31, 2020, the Suzdal Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office announced that two residents of the Suzdal District were fined for publishing freely available videos on their pages on social networks that were recognized as extremist and included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials. As the media clarifies, " one of them published a video containing statements that negatively assess a group of people by party affiliation ... The second video concerned violent actions aimed at inciting ethnic hatred ."
On May 29, 2020, in the city of Angarsk, Irkutsk Region, a court fined a 28-year-old local resident for 1,000 rubles for posting a banned xenophobic video from the Federal List of Extremist Materials on the VKontakte social network (p. 2935 ) .
On May 27, 2020, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Lipetsk fined local resident Mikhail Argunov for publishing two banned videos from the Federal List of Extremist Materials. Unfortunately, it was not reported which videos are in question.
On May 18, 2020, in the city of Saransk, Republic of Mordovia, a court fined a local resident for 1,000 rubles for posting a certain banned video on a social network, which was recognized as extremist by the decision of the Oktyabrsky District Court of the city of Vladimir. Unfortunately, it is not possible to understand what kind of video we are talking about, because. This court has banned many different video materials over the years.
On May 21, 2020, it became known that in the Sosnovoborsky district of the Penza region, a court fined a 31-year-old local resident for 1,000 rubles for publishing a certain forbidden audio recording from the Federal List of Extremist Materials on the VKontakte social network.
On May 18, 2020, it became known that in the Kemerovo Region, the Tashtagol City Court fined 36-year-old Yury Volkov for two thousand rubles for publishing 14 audio and video recordings included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials on his Odnoklassniki page.
On May 18, 2020, it became known that in the Ivanovo Region, the Frunzensky District Court fined a 24-year-old resident of Ivanovo for posting a prohibited video on his VKontakte page.
On May 13, 2020, it became known that in the Ivanovo region, a court fined Denis Krugov, a resident of the city of Teikovo, who published an audio recording included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials on his Odnoklassniki page.
On May 6, 2020, it became known that in the Ivanovo Region, a court fined a resident of the city of Furmanov for 1,500 rubles for publishing certain prohibited materials on his VKontakte page.

Sources

Penalty for posting extremist materials on social networks // Tulgansky district court of the Orenburg region. June 16, 2020
Case No. 5-296/2020 // Official website of the Frunzensky District Court of the city of Ivanovo. May 15, 2020
According to the decisions of the Suzdal Interdistrict Prosecutor, the perpetrators were held accountable for the distribution and storage of extremist materials // Official website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Vladimir Region. May 28, 2020
At the request of the prosecutor's office of the city of Angarsk, a local resident was held liable for the distribution of extremist materials // Prosecutor's office of the Irkutsk region. May 29, 2020
Resident of Lipsk brought to administrative responsibility for posting extremist materials on a social network // Prosecutor's office of the Lipetsk region. May 27, 2020
In Mordovia, a young man will pay a fine for posting extremist material on a social network // Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Mordovia. May 21, 2020
Resident of Penza region fined for mass distribution of extremist audio recording // Prosecutor's office of the Penza region. May 21, 2020
The prosecutor's office of the Frunzensky district of Ivanovo in relation to a 34-year-old resident of the regional center initiated an administrative offense case under Art. 20.29 Administrative Code // Prosecutor's office of the Ivanovo region. May 18, 2020
Man in Tashtagol prosecuted for extremist publications // Prosecutor's Office of the Kemerovo Region. May 18, 2020
Resolution on case No. 5-145/2020 // Tashtagol city court of the Kemerovo region. April 28, 2020
Based on the results of the inspection of the Teykovo Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office, a resident of the city of Teykovo was brought to administrative responsibility for storing extremist materials on a social network // Prosecutor's office of the Ivanovo region. May 13, 2020
The Furmanovskaya Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office conducted an investigation into the storage of extremist materials by a resident of the city of Furmanov on his personal page on the VKontakte social network // Prosecutor's office of the Ivanovo region. May 6, 2020