Mikhail Benyash. Photo: Press Service of FPA The judge of the Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar Ekaterina Igortseva fined the lawyer Mikhail Benyash for 30 thousand rubles for the “discrediting” of the Russian army. The meeting was held in the absence of Benyash himself, the Lawyer Street reports . The reason for initiating an administrative case against a lawyer was posts in his telegram channel.

Vitaliy Votanovsky is a former volunteer of the Krasnodar "headquarters of Navalny". He leads the telegram channel "Titles in Krasnodar." In his channel, the activist published the photographs and names of police officers for a long time that pursued civilian activists and dispersed rallies. Vitaly Votanovsky attracted most of all, when he began to systematically publish photographs of the graves of the dead in the war in Ukraine to show the real number of human losses.