The court dismissed cases against a Ural pensioner initiated for comments about the authorities

The Shalinsky District Court of the Sverdlovsk Region terminated administrative cases on two protocols of “disrespect for authority” (Part 3 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code) against pensioner Sergei Usoltsev. Navalny's headquarters in Yekaterinburg talks about this.

Portal Znak.com reports on the circumstances of the case against Usoltsev: an elderly resident of the village of Gora was charged with comments about the Russian authorities on VKontakte and YouTube. “On YouTube or Yandex, I don’t remember, [there was a video where] Putin talks about nullifying, changing the Constitution, I used a little obscene language in the direction of Vladimir Vladimir Putin and United Russia, our core. Department “K” of the police found me and decided to try me for “insulting the authorities.” I don’t agree with this case, and I don’t know why I should be judged,” the pensioner himself commented on the case.

told According to Usoltsev, he left the comments that the police drew attention to back in 2020, but they decided to draw up a report on him only in April 2021.

As a result, the court sided with Usoltsev and terminated the administrative cases.