In Novgorod, a doctor was fined for displaying Nazi symbols because of a video with a Cranberries song

The Novgorod District Court fined local surgeon Valery Kochnev two thousand rubles, finding him guilty of displaying Nazi symbols (Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). about this in her Telegram channel . wrote Novgorod politician Ksenia Cherepanova

The reason for drawing up an administrative protocol against Kochnev was a video with the song “Zombie” by the Irish band Cranberries, published on his page on VKontakte. It reportedly shows documentary footage from German newsreels.

Cherepanova noted that the report against Kochnev was drawn up during the election campaign, when he was running for the City Duma from the Yabloko party.

At the same time, according to Cherepanova, the court refused to conduct an audiovisual examination of the Cranberries video. Linguistic examination was also not carried out. The Ministry of Internal Affairs expert explained in court that she did not do this because the clip was in English.

In turn, Kochnev stated in court that he did not know that this clip was published on his page. He explained that his page on Vkontakte was repeatedly hacked by unknown people, who then tried to collect money from subscribers. Kochnev himself, according to him , is an anti-fascist.

Updated. Initially, the title stated that it was about a video from the Cranberries.

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