In Veliky Novgorod, a fine and arrest were imposed on an activist who lay down near the Kremlin and covered himself with a Ukrainian flag

The Novgorod District Court of the Novgorod Region imposed a fine and arrest on Anton Gorban for an anti-war rally in the Novgorod Kremlin. This was reported by the press service of the court and the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs .

On April 11, an activist lay down on the sidewalk near the Millennium of Russia monument on the Kremlin territory, covering himself with a Ukrainian flag in the image of a bag for the bodies of those killed.

On April 14, the court arrested Gorban for seven days under a protocol of disobedience to the National Guard during arrest due to the activist’s refusal to identify himself and go with them into a patrol car (Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code). In a video from the rally, one National Guard employee stood over Gorban and repeated: “Get up, I say, young man!”

On April 18, he was fined 45 thousand rubles because of the action itself under the article on “discrediting” the actions of the Russian military abroad (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code).