A resident of the Urals has been fined over an ironic comment about the RDK.

The Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg has fined 21-year-old Ognislav Raikh, a resident of Kopeysk in Chelyabinsk region, 350,000 rubles (approximately US$3,900) over a comment about the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK). This was reported by SOTAvision.

A criminal case for “justifying terrorism” (Part 2, Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) was initiated because Raikh replied to someone who identified themselves as a member of the RDK and called him and another user “petyukh” (“roosters”–a derogatory Russian prison term): “You talk like someone who’s offended, or maybe even a lowered convict. Although if you’re in the RDK, you’re supposed to live up to the standards of a worthy warrior, since everyone there is like that. FSB, I’m joking, of course, just trolling.” The exchange took place in the Telegram channel of neo-Nazi Dmitrii Borovikov.

The prosecution had asked for Raikh to be sentenced to five and a half years in a prison colony.