Kirill Kiselyov, administrator of the “Glockmeister” channel from St Petersburg, has been fined 50,000 roubles (about US$550) for saying that Russian National Guard officers are “worse than terrorists.” This was reported by the city’s joint press service of the courts.
According to the Primorsky District Court, on 23 April, Kiselyov published a post in his channel about the presidential administration creating the Russian National Guard. The text of the post included the following: “They [the National Guard officers] are worse than the terrorists who carried out the attacks that killed [Z-military correspondent Vladlen] Tatarsky and General [Igor] Kirillov.” These words no longer appear in the original post, as it has since been changed.
Experts who analysed the post found this sentence to contain a “negative assessment of the employees of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops.”
The court fined Kirill Kiselyov under the law against spreading information that expresses disrespect for state authority (Part 3 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Offences Code). The St Petersburg resident did not appear at the hearing; it is unknown whether they admitted guilt.
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Russian law enforcement officials are prosecuting people over posts and reposts that they interpret as insulting the state and society (Articles 20.1 parts 3, 4 and 5 of the Code of Administrative Offences). OVD-Info is gathering information about such cases. Previous reports on this topic can be read here.
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