A participant in a rally for Navalny in Izhevsk received a suspended sentence; the court decided that it interfered with trolleybuses and caused damage worth 4,367 rubles

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Izhevsk sentenced the defendant in the “January case” Anastasia Ponkina to two years probation. this The activist herself reports on her Telegram channel.

The girl was found guilty in the case of hooliganism motivated by political enmity (clause “b” of Part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).

A criminal case was opened against Ponkina in March 2021. The occasion was a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23, 2021. According to the prosecution, the activist “held a public mass event on the roadway on Pushkinskaya, Sovetskaya, Kommunarov and Krasnoarmeyskaya streets” in the center of Izhevsk. In the case file, the investigator noted that Ponkina wrote about the rally on social networks, and on the appointed day she came to the gathering place and shouted that she needed to go out into the street and “show who is the power here.” The damage from the girl’s actions was estimated at 4,367 rubles. According to the prosecution, the protest interfered with the movement of four trolleybuses.

While the investigation was ongoing, Ponkina was under recognizance not to leave the place.

After the rallies on January 23 and 31, dozens of administrative and criminal cases were opened across Russia under various articles. In Yekaterinburg, two activists were sent to a penal colony for throwing a smoke bomb towards the police, a resident of Kazan received 1.5 years of probation in the case of calls for extremism, and in Omsk , Abakan , Kemerovo , Ufa and other cities hundreds of thousands of rubles were collected from protesters for police work.