An activist from Yekaterinburg was given two years for a post about the murder of Tatarsky

A court in Yekaterinburg sentenced local activist Yaroslav Shirshikov to two years in a general regime colony for a post about the murder of military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin). This was reported by It’s My City from the courtroom.

Shirshikov was found guilty of justifying terrorism for a post in his Telegram channel that was published on the day of Tatarsky’s murder, April 2, 2023 (the Investigative Committee reclassified the murder case as terrorism on April 3).

“I’m against something exploding in cities (in any city) and people dying, but it seems to me that all these Z-military officers are being shunned by their own, just like they used to be all kinds of muddy “motorol yadonbassovicheys”. And I’ll be honest, that I don’t feel a shadow of sadness about this. To Vladlena Tatarsky, who wanted to kill and rob everyone, as he loved, the earth is glassy, ​​as well as to those who voluntarily came to the creative evening of this scumbag in St. Petersburg,” Shirshikov’s post It’s My City quotes.

The prosecutor claimed that the accused committed the crime out of hatred for the social groups “military correspondents” and “public figures”. The prosecution asked for six years in prison for Shirshikov. Toth pleaded guilty.

In addition to the prison term, the court forbade Shirshikova to administer Telegram channels and websites for two years.

• The FSB detained Shirshikov in April 2023, he was sent to a pre-trial detention center for two months, after which he was released on a bond not to leave. At the end of March, he met with Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Hershkovich and was one of the first to report his arrest. Hershkovich is still in the Moscow pre-trial detention center on charges of espionage.
• Earlier, Shirshikov actively protested against the construction of a temple on the site of a city square in Yekaterinburg. Then the protesters managed to defend the square.