The fine for a St Petersburg resident in the FBK donation case has been increased to 600,000 roubles (approx. US$6,600).
Switch Language English Русский The St Petersburg City Court has toughened the sentence for Oleg Smirnov, who is accused of financing extremist activity (Part 1, Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code), upon appeal. His lawyer, Sergey Podolsky, told OVD-Info about this. In the initial trial, Smirnov was fined 350,000 roubles (about US$3,900). The prosecutor had requested five years in prison.