In St. Petersburg, the court terminated the case of discrediting the Russian army

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg terminated the case under the article on the discrediting of the Russian army in relation to activist Alexei Podgorni, who picked on Nevsky Prospekt on February 2 “war - peace, freedom - slavery, ignorance - strength, there is enough distortion”. This was reported by the press service of city courts.

The court came to the conclusion that “antonyms and phrases” were written on the podgorny poster, not calling for anything. "It does not contain any calls, including a call for the prevention of the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation outside the country in order to maintain peace and balance," it was reported.

The court emphasized that the photograph of Podgorny with a poster presented to the court confirms only that he "was at the indicated time at the indicated place with a poster in his hands."

• On March 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on amendments to the administrative and criminal codes, according to which fines and imprisonment of up to 15 years are provided for the distribution of fakes on the actions of the RF Armed Forces. The bill on these amendments was submitted to the State Duma on March 2. The lower house unanimously voted for him at once in three readings. Within two days, the draft law was approved by the Federation Council and the President.
• Under the article on "discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation" since March 4, a thousand administrative cases have already appeared, the OVD-Info reports . Human rights activists noted that the scatter of actions for which you can be attracted under this article is very large. For example, several cases were instituted for crosses in memory of those who died in Buch and Mariupol, for "insulting the sign Z" and for the recitation of anti -war poetry. The largest number of cases was instituted for anti -war pickets and posts on social networks.