The ex-chief of Navalny's Arkhangelsk headquarters had his sentence in prison reduced by one day

Former head of Navalny's Arkhangelsk headquarters, Andrei Borovikov, who was convicted because of reposting a Rammstein video, had his sentence in prison reduced by one day, SOTA reports .

The court recalculated the period at the request of the administration of IK-7 of the Arkhangelsk region, which found an error in the previous calculations.

The Lomonosovsky District Court of Arkhangelsk in April 2021 sentenced Borovikov to two years and six months in a general regime colony - he was found guilty in the case of distributing pornography (clause “b” of Part 3 of Article 242 of the Criminal Code) because of the Rammstein “Pussy” video. On July 15 of the same year, the appellate court reduced the prison term by three months.

According to investigators, in 2014, Borovikov published a video on VKontakte containing “naturalistic scenes depicting sexual intercourse, with a visual demonstration of the genitals.”

• Amnesty International recognized the persecution of Andrei Borovikov as politically motivated. The director of the Russian representative office of the organization, Natalya Zvyagina, notes that Borovikov’s opinion “often diverges from the position of the executive branch, and his criticism is clearly not liked by some of its representatives.”
• In 2019, Andrei Borovikov was sentenced on charges of repeated violation of the established procedure for holding an action (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code) - he was sentenced to 400 hours of compulsory labor. A criminal case was opened after the activist’s participation in several peaceful protests against the construction of a landfill at Shies station. Amnesty International also considers this case political.