The court dismissed the administrative case against an 82-year-old bookseller from Perm, who was denounced by a young man who talked to him in the park

The Industrial District Court of Perm dismissed the administrative case of “discrediting” the army against 82-year-old pensioner Alexander Nikonov. This was reported by Perm defender Artem Fayzulin.

In May 2023, radiophysicist engineer Nikonov, who, as the New Tab wrote , worked most of his life at the Perm long-distance communication equipment plant (ADS), sold his own books in the Mindovsky Park entitled “The Russian Empire from 1900 to 2020.” ", "Scientific communism" and "Communist society: as it is seen in the 21st century."

As Faizulin said , Nikonov struck up a conversation with 19-year-old Gleb Sakharov, who was walking in the park with a girl. The pensioner expressed his attitude towards the war, to which his interlocutor announced his desire to go to Ukraine. The pensioner replied that the young man could be killed there.

Sakharov called the police, who took Nikonov to the department. A report was drawn up against the pensioner about “discrediting” the military (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code) and his books were confiscated.

“Citizen A. P. Nikonov <…> carried out public actions, namely: during a dialogue with G. A. Sakharov, he stated that “the Russian Federation unleashed the third world war and occupied the territory of Ukraine.” Nikonov A.P. suggested to G.A. Sakharov “to listen to the oppositionists who tell the truth about Russia,” and also said that in the ongoing war, civilians were being killed and he could also be killed, that is, he carried out public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces Force,” New Tab quoted the text of the protocol.

Nikonov, according to Sakharov, told him that he was writing books “about Russian fascism since the time of Stalin.” “I, without sharing the man’s statements, entered into a further conversation with him and asked why he didn’t leave Russia in this case since he didn’t like her <…> I realized that this man was negatively disposed towards Russia and took Taking into account the fact that after me this man approached other people and offered to buy books, I decided to report this fact to the police for recording,” the young man told the security forces.

At one of the meetings, Sakharov was questioned as a witness. Judge Mokrushin drew attention to the young man’s statement about “why Nikonov doesn’t leave Russia.” He asked Sakharov why a man who had lived in the country for 82 years should leave it, to which, as Faizulin wrote, the young man “confusedly replied that he was a patriot.”

Faizulin in court drew attention to errors in the protocol, said that a personal dialogue between two people cannot be considered “public discredit” of the army, and also emphasized that Nikonov wrote his books in 2015-2020, that is, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine . As a result, Judge Mokrushin dismissed the case against the pensioner.