A Muscovite woman was fined 30,000 rubles for a dispute in a cafe about Ukraine

A resident of Moscow was fined 30,000 rubles for the article on the so-called discrediting of the Russian army. The court considered a dispute in one of the Moscow cafes as the subject for initiating the case. One of the visitors spoke loudly and aggressively against Ukrainians, including using profanity. The fined woman asked him not to swear publicly and reminded that many Russians have relatives and friends in Ukraine. The opponent complained to the police.

According to OVD-Info, the opponent recorded the Muscovite’s speech on the phone, freed the police and detained her until the arrival of the brigade. The police advised her to discuss topics related to Ukraine “in the kitchen, not in public places.” They also studied her pages on social networks and found a post in which she criticized “sending uneducated people for meat.” A report on the discrediting of the army was drawn up against the author of the post. The court sentenced her to a fine.

• After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian authorities began to prosecute anti-war speeches and statements.
• According to “OVD-Info” estimates, during the 13 months of the war, the police detained more than 15,000 anti-war activists, opened 528 criminal cases, including 154 – on the article about fakes about the Russian army (Russian courts recognize reports about the war in Ukraine as fakes, not coinciding with the version of the Ministry of Defense of Russia) and 66 – about repeated discrediting of the Russian government and army (Russian courts consider, for example, the use of the word “war” and not “special military operation” in relation to the war in Ukraine to be discrediting).