
A resident of Severodvinsk Yuri Shcherbachev wrote an application for the local department of the FSB. He demands that the Office of the guilty under the article insulting veterans of the Great Patriotic War. The reason was a search in 2014, when police officers seized medals, a dagger and a landing knife of his father. The FSB returned to Shcherbachev a father’s medal, but for six years it cannot pass a dagger and a knife. Shcherbachev himself spoke about this to the correspondent of the Sever. Realia.
At the beginning of 2014, the prosecutor's office of the Arkhangelsk region came a letter with the threat of the explosion of their building before the holiday "Day of the prosecutor’s office". According to the FSB officers, the letter was signed by Yuri Shcherbachev. Shcherbachev himself did not see letters and does not know whether the criminal case of a false report on mining was subsequently instituted.
But because of a letter in the apartment of Shcherbachev, a search was carried out, during which 3 orders, 5 medals, a dagger and a landing knife were seized.
In 2017, the Oktyabrsky District Court of the city of Arkhangelsk recognized the search illegal and obliged the FSB officers to return all the things that were seized. Shcherbachev was returned to medals, but the dagger and knife were transferred to the police.
"I recently received a letter from the FSB that my father’s things were transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for storage, and now there are difficulties in receiving things. I just wrote a statement that I ask you to get acquainted that everything is, that everything is in preservation, I did not satisfy the statement now, since in 21 the law was adopted to insult the honor and dignity of veterans. Now there is just such a campaign under this article and all convicts - usual - usual - usual - usual. Citizens, although, as we see, the state bodies of the stigma themselves in the gun, "said Shcherbachev North. Realiy.

On April 5, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law on the punishment for insulting the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland or humiliation of the honor and dignity of the veteran of the Great Patriotic War. According to this article, the defendant may face a fine of 3 to 5 million rubles, or imprisonment for 5 years.