Administrative cases under Art. 20.3 Code of Administrative Offences. April 2022

Due to the increase in the number of administrative cases under Art. 20.3 of the Administrative Code (propaganda and public display of Nazi symbols and symbols of prohibited organizations), we combine similar cases for each month into a single list.

On April 29, 2022, the Leninsky District Court of Irkutsk arrested D. Salomatov for 14 days for displaying a tattoo with a swastika and an image of “Wolfsagel” (wolf hook) on the Vladivostok-Moscow passenger train.
On April 5, 2022, the Dimitrovgrad City Court of the Ulyanovsk Region twice ruled to impose administrative penalties on Ukrainian citizen Dobroslav Manko for publishing materials with Nazi symbols. Most likely, we are talking about photographs of Manko’s tattoos: a swastika is depicted on his chest, and a portrait of Hitler on his arm. In addition, Manko was found guilty under Art. 20.29 Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of prohibited materials). It is reported that he received a total sentence of arrest for 14 days.
On April 27, 2022, the Chernovsky District Court of Chita (Trans-Baikal Territory) fined Konstantin Ionov one thousand rubles for publishing a drawing with a swastika on VKontakte.
On April 29, 2022, the Sovetsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod fined Nikolai Simakov for publishing certain materials with Nazi symbols on VKontakte.
On April 29, 2022, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Vladimir fined Andrei Medvedev one thousand rubles for publishing certain materials with Nazi symbols on the Internet.
On April 29, 2022, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Vladimir fined Danil Kuznetsov one thousand rubles for publicly publishing pictures depicting Nazi symbols on a social network. Kuznetsov did not appear at the court hearing and petitioned for the case to be considered without his participation.
On April 21, 2022, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Novorossiysk fined M. Bocharov one thousand rubles for publishing certain video files with Nazi symbols on the VKontakte social network.
On April 19, 2022, the Voroshilovsky District Court of Volgograd fined Igor Pozdnyakov one thousand rubles, finding him guilty of publishing a video with Nazi symbols on the VKontakte social network. Details, unfortunately, were not provided.
On April 29, 2022, the Sovetsky District Court of the city of Nizhny Novgorod fined a local resident, finding him guilty of publishing an image with Nazi symbols on the VKontakte social network. Details, unfortunately, were not provided.
On April 27, 2022, the Oktyabrsky District Court of the city of Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Territory, fined two prisoners of local penal colony No. 3, Artur Davityan and Sergei Lyubchenko, one and a half thousand rubles, finding each of them guilty of showing other prisoners their tattoos with swastikas. Davityan has a tattoo on his stomach, and Lyubchenko has a tattoo on his legs.
On April 26, 2022, the Moscow City Court of Ryazan fined D. Egorov one thousand rubles for displaying his own tattoo in the form of two lightning bolts depicting the symbols of the SS division of Nazi Germany on his neck in the entrance of a residential building.
On April 29, 2022, the Pravoberezhny District Court of Lipetsk fined Mikhail Shvetsov one thousand rubles for publishing a video with a swastika under the nickname “Miwka Dankovskiy” on the VKontakte social network.
On April 19, 2022, the Armavir City Court of the Krasnodar Territory fined Mikhail Razvalyaev one thousand rubles, finding him guilty of publishing an image of the “Black Sun” on a social network. Unfortunately, it was not reported in what context the publication was made. The "Black Sun" is an esoteric occult symbol often used by both neo-Nazis and neo-pagans.
On April 28, 2022, the Leninsky District Court of Krasnoyarsk fined local resident Ekaterina Stulishayko two thousand rubles for publishing two pictures with Nazi symbols on a social network. The first one has a swastika and the caption “regular wardrobe at a Lviv school”; the second is with an image of Adolf Hitler with a swastika armband and the caption “When asked where to found the 4th Reich.” Unfortunately, it was not reported in what context the images were posted.
On April 20, 2022, the Central District Court of the city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, arrested local resident E. Kirichenko for 10 days, finding him guilty of publishing images with symbols of the Third Reich in the “Interesting Sochi” community on the VKontakte social network.
On April 14, 2022, the Yuzhno-Sakhalin City Court of the Sakhalin Region fined Nurlan Aliyev one thousand rubles for demonstrating on the street the symbols of a certain banned international organization. Unfortunately, it was not reported which organization we are talking about.
On April 21, 2022, the Semenovsky District Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region fined local resident T. Morozkina one thousand rubles, finding her guilty of publishing an image with a swastika on a social network. Unfortunately, it was not reported in what context it was published.
On April 12, 2022, the Central District Court of Chita fined Konstantin Chirov one thousand rubles for publishing an image with Nazi symbols on his social network account.
On April 26, 2022, the Industrial District Court of Khabarovsk fined Daria Zakharova one thousand rubles for publishing on her account on the social network Instagram a photograph of her common-law husband with a tattoo on his chest in the form of Nazi symbols.
On April 6, 2022, the Oktyabrsky District Court of the Vladimir Region fined Andrei Drozdov one thousand rubles for publicly publishing a video with Nazi symbols on the VKontakte social network.
On April 27, 2022, the Odoevsky Interdistrict Court of the Tula Region sentenced a local resident to eight days of arrest. According to the department, on April 21, 2022, at his home, he showed acquaintances a swastika tattooed on his chest.
On April 18, 2022, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk fined A. Kislov one thousand rubles for drawing a swastika on the facade of a residential building with a marker.
On April 25, 2022, the Tambov District Court of the Tambov Region fined A. Braginets for publishing an image with Nazi symbols on the VKontakte network. In what context the publication was made and what exactly it contained, unfortunately, is unknown.
On April 21, 2022, the Sverdlovsk District Court of the city of Kostroma fined A. Zakharov one thousand rubles for displaying a tattoo with the coat of arms of Nazi Germany. According to the case file, Zakharov was in a public place without a T-shirt, which is why his tattoo became visible.
On April 20, 2022, the Shchekino Interdistrict Court of the Tula Region arrested local resident Roman Maslennikov for seven days for publishing materials containing Nazi symbols on a social network. Unfortunately, it was not reported in what context the materials were posted. On April 11, the same court fined him 30 thousand rubles under Art. 20.3.3 Code of Administrative Offenses (public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation).
On April 22, 2022, it became known that the Tula City District Commission on Minors’ Affairs and Protection of Their Rights fined a 17-year-old local teenager who was found guilty of publishing materials with Nazi symbols on the VKontakte social network.
On April 21, 2022, the Mariinsky City Court of the Kemerovo Region fined three colony prisoners one thousand rubles for showing off their own tattoos to other prisoners while washing.
On April 20, 2022, the prosecutor's office of the Bryansk region announced that a resident of Bryansk was fined two thousand rubles for publishing a video recording with prohibited symbols on the Internet in the public domain.
On April 12, 2022, the Kotlas City Court of the Arkhangelsk Region fined Ruslan Garadzhaev one thousand rubles for publishing video files with the symbols of the Islamic State, which was recognized as a terrorist organization by the decision of the Supreme Court on December 29, 2014.
On April 13, 2022, the Ordzhonikidze District Court of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, fined Alexei Valkov, a prisoner in Penitentiary Institution IK-18 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Chelyabinsk Region, for displaying a tattoo with a swastika on his left hand in the canteen.
On April 13, 2022, the Ordzhonikidze District Court of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, fined Dmitry Bystrov, prisoner No. 1 of PKU IK-18 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, one thousand rubles for displaying a swastika tattoo on the forearm of his left hand and shin of his left leg.
On April 13, 2022, the Ordzhonikidze District Court of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, fined P. Shlygin, prisoner of colony No. 1 of PKU IK-18, one thousand rubles for showing other prisoners his own tattoo with a swastika on the ankle of his right leg.
On April 19, 2022, the Ponyrovsky District Court of the Kursk Region fined a local resident two thousand rubles for displaying his own swastika tattoo on his neck.
On April 20, 2022, in Buryatia, a court arrested a 29-year-old resident of Ulan-Ude for five days for demonstrating on April 14, in one of the drinking establishments in the Zheleznodorozhny district, his own tattoo with a swastika on the back of his head. Eyewitnesses reported to the police. The offender was taken to the police department, where his identity was established and a report of an administrative offense was drawn up. He had previously been convicted several times, including for crimes of an extremist nature. In November 2021, he was released from prison and was again brought to justice for a property crime. The attacker admitted his guilt.
In April 2022, in Ivanovo, a court arrested for seven days a motorist who was driving around the city in a car with a bumper sticker with one of the symbols of Nazi Germany.
On April 5, 2022, the Smolensky District Court of the Smolensk Region fined Andrei Karpenkov one thousand rubles for publicly publishing drawings with a Nazi swastika on the VKontakte social network.
On April 13, 2022, the Yakut City Court of the Republic of Yakutia fined Vadim Ko-Sen-Din one thousand rubles for publishing in the public domain on the VKontakte social network a photograph depicting Nazi symbols (coat of arms, swastika, hands raised in a fascist salute). He had previously been fined for a similar offence.
On April 6, 2022, the Proletarsky District Court of Saransk of the Republic of Mordovia fined Alexey Veretennikov one thousand rubles for publishing a photograph with Nazi symbols on the VKontakte social network.
On April 13, 2022, the Pravoberezhny District Court of Lipetsk fined Alexander Alenichev, a prisoner of local correctional colony No. 6, one thousand rubles for displaying a swastika tattoo on his chest.
In April 2022, the Krasnoarmeysky District Court found a local resident (born in 1973) of committing an administrative offense and sentenced him to administrative arrest for a period of 15 days. According to the press service, on February 27, 2022, the offender posted photographs containing images of Nazi symbols and paraphernalia.
In April 2022, in the Tula region it became known that the court had fined a 43-year-old local resident who had been previously convicted several times for publishing materials with Nazi symbols on the Internet. In addition, the court fined him under Art. 20.3.3 Code of Administrative Offenses (discrediting the actions of the RF Armed Forces). The total amount of the fine was 41.5 thousand rubles.
On April 13, 2022, the Shchekinsky District Court of the Tula Region arrested for 15 days a 31-year-old resident of the village of Karamyshevo, who pasted the logo of his car, combined with Nazi symbols, on the rear window of a Volkswagen car. Judging by the photo, we are talking about a sticker with an eagle from the coat of arms of the Third Reich, only instead of a swastika, the eagle bears the Volkswagen logo in its claws. It is not very clear what the owner of the car wanted to say by this. Perhaps it's just a bad joke.
On April 11, 2022, the Pervomaisky District Court of Orenburg fined 61-year-old local resident Elena Farunina, finding her guilty of publishing an image with Nazi symbols on a social network. In what context the image was published and what exactly it contained, unfortunately, has not been disclosed.
On April 11, 2022, the Anadyrsky District Court of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug fined a 29-year-old young man two thousand rubles for shouting nationalist slogans on board the Moscow-Anadyr plane during the flight. He was detained by officers of the Chukotka line police department of the North-Eastern LU of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia on transport while checking documents.
On April 11, 2022, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Mordovia reported that a 32-year-old resident of the Elnikovsky district was fined one thousand rubles for publishing in the public domain on his page on the social network VKontakte a video “containing a set of linguistic and psychological signs of excitement enmity, hatred towards a group of persons identified on the basis of nationality and race, and public display of Nazi symbols." He was also fined under Art. 20.3.1 Code of Administrative Offenses (incitement of national hatred).
On April 5, 2022, the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court fined a 68-year-old local resident, who was found guilty of publishing material with a swastika on a social network, one thousand rubles. It is reported that the person involved in the case had previously been charged with a similar offense and was also fined 1 thousand rubles.
On April 4, 2022, the Sarapulsky District Court of the Udmurt Republic fined a local resident one thousand rubles, finding him guilty of publishing on the VKontakte social network some material containing an image of a swastika and the Odal rune.
On April 1, 2022, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Orenburg announced that it had fined a local resident one thousand rubles for depicting Nazi symbols on his page on a social network.

Sources

Cases of administrative offenses - first instance CASE No. 5-189/2022 // Leninsky District Court of Irkutsk. 2022. April 29.
In Russia, a court arrested a Ukrainian citizen for promoting terrorism // Lenta.ru. 2022. October 21.
Case No. 5-671/2022 // Official website of the Chernovsky District Court of Chita (Trans-Baikal Territory). 2022. April 27.
Case No. 5-278/2022 // Official website of the Sovestky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod. 2022. April 29.
Case No. 5-903/2022 // Official website of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Vladimir. 2022. April 29.
Case No. 5-902/2022 // Official website of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Vladimir. 2022. April 29.
DECISION // Official website of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Novorossiysk. 2022. April 27.
Case No. 5-1194/22 // Official website of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Novorossiysk. 2022. April 21.
Case No. 5-976/2022 // Voroshilovsky District Court of the city of Volgograd. 2022. April 19.
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P O S T A N O V L E N I E // Official website of the Moscow City Court of Ryazan. 2022. April 26.
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Case No. 5-573/2022 // Official website of the Pravoberezhny District Court of Lipetsk. 2022. April 29.
Proceedings in cases of administrative offenses CASE No. 5-2455/2022 // Armavir City Court of the Krasnodar Territory. 2022. April 19.
Cases of administrative offenses - first instance // Leninsky District Court of the city of Krasnoyarsk. 2022. April 28.
Proceedings in cases of administrative offenses // Central District Court of the city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory. 2022. April 20.
Proceedings in cases of administrative offenses // Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court of the Sakhalin Region. 2022. April 14.
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Cases of administrative offenses - first instance // Semenovsky District Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. 2022. April 21.
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Case No. 5-261/2022 // Official website of the Industrial District Court of Khabarovsk. 2022. April 26.
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5-527/2022 // Official website of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk. 2022. April 18.
Proceedings in cases of administrative offenses // Tambov District Court of the Tambov Region. 2022. April 25.
Proceedings in cases of administrative offenses // Sverdlovsk District Court of the city of Kostroma. 2022. April 21.
In the Tula region, a man was arrested for seven days for displaying Nazi symbols // Tula News Service. 2022. April 25.
A teenager from Tula was brought to justice for an administrative offense in the field of extremism // Telegram channel "Tula. Extremism". 2022. April 21.
Prisoners of the Kuzbass colony received fines for tattoos with Nazi symbols // RAPSI. 2022. April 21.
A 50-year-old resident of Bryansk was fined for displaying Nazi symbols // Bryansk. Province. 2022. April 20.
Case No. 5-329/22 // Official website of the Kotlas City Court of the Arkhangelsk Region. 2022. April 12.
Case No. 5-423/2022 // Official website of the Ordzhonikidze District Court of Magnitogorsk. 2022. April 13.
CASE No. 5-422/2022 // Official website of the Ordzhonikidze District Court of Magnitogorsk. 2022. April 13.
Case No. 5-424/2022 // Official website of the Ordzhonikidze District Court of Magnitogorsk. 2022. April 13.
A resident of the Kursk region was fined for a swastika tattoo // Kursk News. 2022. April 19.
Ulan-Ude citizen brought to administrative responsibility for demonstrating a Nazi tattoo // Official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Buryatia. 2022. April 20.
A resident of the Ivanovo region drove a car with Nazi symbols // News Agency. 2022. April 20.
CASE No. 5-179/2022 // Official website of the Smolensk District Court of the Smolensk Region. 2022. April 5.
CASE No. 5-3200/2022 // Official website of the Yakut City Court of Yakutia. 2022. April 6.
CASE No. 5-685/2022 // Official website of the Proletarsky District Court of Saransk. 2022. April 6.
A citizen serving a sentence in a correctional colony was held administratively liable for a public demonstration of Nazi symbols // Prosecutor's Office of the Lipetsk Region. 2022. April 18.
A resident of the Krasnoarmeysky district received 15 days of arrest for a public demonstration of Nazi symbols // Telegram channel of the United press service of the vessels of the Krasnodar Territory. 2022. April 14.
Denacification in Tulski // Telegram channel Tula. Extremism. 2022. April 14.
On April 13, 2022, the Shkinskiy District Court of the Tula region to administrative responsibility for the public demonstration of the prohibited Nazi symbols (coat of arms of Nazi Germany) attracted the 31-year-old Shchekinets // Telegram channel of Tula. Extremism. 2022. April 14.
In the Pervomaisky district, a pensioner promoted Nazi symbols // Orengrad. 2022. April 11.
On Chukotka, a nationalist was fined // Amur press. 2022. April 11.
A native of the Yelnikovsky district was convicted of demonstrating the Nazi video // Bulletin of Mordovia. 2022. April 11.
A resident of Omsk was punished for the publication of Nazi symbols on the Internet // AO "Omsk Media". 2022. April 7.
In Kamchatka, police officers brought a citizen liable for the next publication of Nazi symbols // Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the Kamchatka Territory. 2022. April 7.
The decision in the case of administrative offenses // Sarapul District Court of the Udmurt Republic. 2022. April 4.
A resident of Orenburg laid out a Nazi symbol on a page on social networks // Arguments and Facts. 2022. April 1.