The Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow sent 49-year-old Artur Bovtunov to a pre-trial detention center in the case of the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the capital’s department of the Investigative Committee and was brought to the attention of Mediazona.
According to investigators , on the night of November 18, the man, while drunk, poured some liquid from a plastic bottle onto the Eternal Flame on Poklonnaya Hill, and also scattered memorial wreaths. Mash wrote that he is homeless. Earlier it was reported that Bovtunov was also suspected of damaging memorial structures that perpetuate the memory of those who died defending the Fatherland (clause “b”, part 2, article 243.4 of the Criminal Code), but it was not indicated in the card on choosing a preventive measure, Mediazona noted "
- According to the SOVA Research Center, many cases under Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code are initiated unlawfully and should be classified under other articles of the Criminal Code or resolved within the framework of civil law.