A Samara deputy and a member of the Left Front was fined because of a song on VKontakte.

A court in Samara fined Mikhail Abdalkin, a deputy of the Samara Provincial Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, 2,500 rubles because of the song “VKontakte”, which was previously included in the register of extremist materials. this on his telegram channel Alexey Lapuzin, the deputy's lawyer, reports .

The deputy, who is also a member of the Left Front movement, was found guilty under the article on the distribution of extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The report on Abdalkin was drawn up on May 19, 2023, at the Novokuibyshevsk police department. The reason was the publication of the composition of the group "Electric Partisans" "Star and Automatic (RAF)" in "VKontakte".

In March, Deputy Mikhail Abdalkin was fined 150,000 rubles under an article about discrediting the army because of a video in which he, hanging noodles on his ears, listened to Vladimir Putin's message to the Federal Assembly. In February 2021, the deputy was arrested for 5 days due to a picket in support of his CPRF colleague Alexander Rogozhkin, a member of the Penza City Duma. In the detention center, Abdalkin went on a hunger strike.

• Electric Partisans is a group founded by former DDT member Vadim Kurylev. The leader of "Partizan" previously spoke in support of those involved in the "Network" case . In 2020, the Ministry of Justice, by decision of the Penza Railway Court, included two of the band's songs - "Left Terror" and "Star and Automatic (RAF)" - to the list of extremist materials. The regional prosecutor's office asked the court to recognize the songs as extremist.
• The "Red Army Faction" (RAF, RAF) is a German left-wing radical terrorist organization that operated in Germany and West Berlin in 1968-1998. Its participants viewed their activities as an urban guerrilla war directed against the state apparatus and the bourgeois class. The RAF logo is a red star with a submachine gun in the background.
• The Left Front is a social movement uniting supporters of socialist development. In 2008, politicians Sergei and Anastasia Udaltsov and Geydar Dzhemal took part in the creation of the organization. Members of the "Left Front" organize various actions, in connection with which they face pressure from the authorities.