In Kaliningrad, a person with autism has become a defendant in an extremism case due to a picture on VKontakte.
Law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case against Artur Smirnov, who suffers from a form of autism, for inciting hatred or enmity (Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) towards women after the image was published on VKontakte, Inga Smirnova, the mother of the person involved in the case, claims in a petition on the Change.org website . According to Smirnova, the reason for initiating a case against her son was a picture posted on a social network in 2014.