A court in Krasnodar approved the verdict of a defendant in the “palace case” who climbed onto a Cossack statue

The Krasnodar Regional Court approved the verdict against Vladimir Egorov in the case of hooliganism at a rally on January 23. Thiswas reported by his lawyer Alexey Avanesyan.

On June 18, Egorov was found guilty of hooliganism (clause “b” of Part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) and was sentenced to two years of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of three years. The court decided that during the action, Yegorov climbed onto an equestrian statue of a Cossack, took off his pants and showed his buttocks, guided by the motives of “hatred or enmity” towards the Kuban Cossack army and the administration of the Krasnodar region.

The defense intends to appeal the court's decision. “There must be a difference between an administrative and a criminal hooligan, and there must be at least one piece of evidence that the business (!) reputation of the Kuban Cossack Army and the administration of the Krasnodar Territory, recognized as victims, suffered from Vladimir’s actions,” the lawyer writes.

• After the arrest of politician Alexei Navalny, a series of protests took place throughout Russia; mass rallies took place on Saturday, January 23, Sunday, January 31, and February 2 (the day Navalny’s suspended sentence was replaced with a real one). Security forces reacted harshly to the protests: on January 23, more than 4,000 people were detained, on January 31, more than 5,500 , and on February 2, more than 1,400 people .
• In connection with the rallies in support of Alexei Navalny, which took place from January 23 to February 2, at least 90 criminal cases were opened across the country. Protest participants were accused of using violence against security forces (Article 318 of the Criminal Code), violating sanitary and epidemiological rules (Part 1 of Article 236 of the Criminal Code), involving minors in illegal activities (Part 2 of Article 151.2 of the Criminal Code), blocking roads (Article 267 CC). The totality of these cases is called the “palace case,” since one of the catalysts for the protests was the FBK investigative film “ Palace for Putin. The story of the biggest bribe ."