A resident of Nizhny Novgorod was fined under an article on discrediting the army because of quotation marks in the word “special operation”

Alexei Podnebesny, an activist from Nizhny Novgorod, told Sota that he was fined 30,000 rubles because of a social media post where he quoted the word “special operation.”

The Avtozavodsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod fined Podnebesny on June 23. Now the activist has received a court decision in his hands. It says that in his publication, the Celestial Empire isolated the word “special operation” with quotation marks, which, according to the court, “certainly testifies to the ironic, opposite, and scornful meaning of the above word.”

Celestial was brought to administrative responsibility because of a post in which he stated that the money spent by Russia on one day of "special operation" in Ukraine would be enough to provide all houses in Nizhny Novgorod with hot water.

In a conversation with Sota, Celestial also said that part of the decision in the case of his wife Valeria, who had previously been fined 30 thousand rubles in another court, got into the court order.