In St Petersburg, a bartender has been charged with vandalism over graffiti on a military enlistment office.

In St Petersburg, a criminal case for vandalism (Part 1, Article 214 of the Criminal Code) has been opened against a 25-year-old bartender over graffiti on the building of the Vyborg District military enlistment office. This was reported by “MK in Pitera,” citing a source in law enforcement.

According to officials, the man used a black marker to write slogans on the building’s facade on the morning of 27 June. After that, the military commissar contacted the police.

According to Fontanka, the bartender wrote two messages: a quote “about the bourgeois and the cops” from a song by the group Poslednie Tanki v Parizhe and a quote “about slaves” from a song by Lyapis Trubetskoy. In the first case, it is likely a reference to the song “A Bullet for the Bourgeois” with the chorus “A bullet for the bourgeois, a noose for the cops!”; in the second, to the song “Kill the Slave.”

The man was detained on 2 July. Fontanka reports that at the police station he “signed a confession.” He was later released on a travel restriction order.