Roizman promised to pay the fines of “Memorial” from donations for his fine

The former mayor of Yekaterinburg promised to pay the fines of “Memorial” from the money collected for the fine, which was assigned to him himself. Ekaterinburg newspaper 66.ru reports on this.

In May, the court ordered Roizman to pay 260,000 rubles in the case of repeated “discrediting” of the Russian army. The politician’s wife Yulia Kruteeva announced an open collection of money for the fine – the required amount was transferred in less than a day. In total, it was possible to collect more than one and a half million rubles.

Part of the money went to the Roizman Foundation charity. Another 300,000 politicians will transfer to the head of Yekaterinburg “Memorial” Alexei Mosin, who was also fined in June for repeatedly discrediting the Russian army. “Memorial” also faces a fine of up to 500,000 rubles for violating the law on “foreign agents”. Roizman also promised to pay this fine.

• The Russian authorities liquidated “Memorial”, which recorded political repressions in the USSR and in modern Russia, in February 2022.
• Yevgeny Roizman is a well-known regional politician, former deputy of the State Duma, former mayor of Yekaterinburg, member of the Union of Writers and honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. According to the indictment, Roizman discredited the Russian army by calling “special operations” in Ukraine war, and the symbol Z – “zygoy”.
• Russian courts consider any anti-war speeches or reports about the participation of Russian troops in war crimes to be discreditable.
• According to “OVD-Info”, cases under the criminal article on repeated discrediting of the army have already been initiated against 88 people. They face up to five years in prison.