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In St. Petersburg, activists were fined 20 thousand rubles for a white-red-white flag at St. Isaac's Cathedral
A court in St. Petersburg fined activists who hung the Belarusian white-red-white flag at St. Isaac's Cathedral for 20,000 rubles. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta in the joint press service of the city courts.
The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg brought Ruslan Khazin and Vladimir Dragun to administrative responsibility. Each of the young people was fined 10 thousand rubles.
On November 8, young people unfurled the Belarusian national flag on the observation deck of St. Isaac's Cathedral. So Khazin and Dragun wanted to support the protesting Belarusians and draw attention to police brutality in the republic after the presidential elections.
After the picket, they went to the consulate of the Republic of Belarus in St. Petersburg and were about to leave the city.
The identity of the picketers was established at the Center for Combating Extremism of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg. As the press service clarified, the personal pages of Khazin and Dragun were found on the Internet.