A sentence was passed for two xenophobic posters on the social network VKontakte.
In the Kursk region, a local resident was sentenced to a year of probation for two xenophobic posters on the VKontakte social network. On November 1, 2019, the Korenevsky District Court of the Kursk Region delivered a sentence under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities). According to the court, in 2016 Gaponov created the Resistance community on the VKontakte social network. In 2017, he posted two posters in the public domain in this community.