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| Court in Ryazan fined an Azov supporter ₽300,000 for calling for terrorist attacks |
| 2024-03-09 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Ryazan resident Alexander Afinogen was fined 300 thousand rubles for calls to join the ranks of terrorist organizations - “Azov” (a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) and the so-called “Russian Volunteer Corps” (a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation). Law enforcement agencies reported this on March 8. The court found the supporter of the Azov nationalist association guilty under Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. “Having strong neo-Nazi views, Afinogenov began to glorify these [terrorist] structures, calling on Russians to join their ranks with the aim of killing Russian military personnel and the population of the Belgorod and Kursk regions bordering Ukraine,” a law enforcement representative specified in an interview with RIA Novosti. It is noted that the defendant himself did not plan to join the units; his goal was to “influence the fragile minds” of young people. Afinogenov admitted guilt during the investigation and repented of his actions. The prosecutor insisted on choosing a preventive measure in the form of imprisonment, but the court decided on a fine. As Regnum reported, on February 15, the Gagarinsky Court of Moscow arrested actor Alexei Panin in absentia for two months in the case of calls for terrorism. A criminal case was opened against him in May 2023. He faces up to five years in prison. On February 26, the Second Western District Military Court sentenced actor Kirill Kanakhin (included by Rosfinmonitoring in the register of organizations and individuals involved in extremist activities or terrorism) in absentia to life imprisonment. He was found guilty of treason. Kanakhin joined the ranks of the so-called “Russian Volunteer Corps”, and also participated in attacks on civilians and Russian military personnel in the Bryansk, Belgorod and Kherson regions. On March 6, a resident of the village of Emelyanovo near Krasnoyarsk came under criminal prosecution. A criminal case was opened against a 37-year-old man under an article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on public calls for extremist activities using the Internet. According to the FSB, he posted a video online containing calls for violence against the Russian Armed Forces participating in the special operation. The defendant faces up to five years in prison. |
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