Press Release, 30.03.2022

Photo: Viktor Shalyakin / Photo from social networks

Viktor Shalyakin, Chairman of the local branch of the Yabloko party in Novgorod, was charged with an administrative offense under Article 13.15, Part 9 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation – “dissemination of knowingly unreliable socially significant information under the guise of reliable messages”. Shalyakin was charged with posting allegedly unreliable information about the “special operation” in Ukraine on social networks on 25 February.

The punishment under this article is from 30,000 to 100,000 roubles.

Viktor Shalyakin was taken to the police station where a protocol of an administrative offense was drawn up against him, all this after he himself called the police because of an attack on him by an unidentified person in the street.

Today, a protocol on “discrediting the Russian armed forces” was drawn up against Vladimir Dorokhov, Chairman of the Tula branch of Yabloko, for his post of 24 February. Earlier, an administrative protocol was drawn up against Anatoly Nogovitsyn from Yakutsk, but there has been no trial yet.

Yabloko activist Yaroslav Revenko from Taganrog was fined 60,000 roubles, and Yabloko’s Valentin Grushevsky from Kemerovo got a fine of  35,000 roubles.

Here go the reports on the persecution of Yabloko members after the start of the “special operation”.

https://www.yabloko.ru/war-against-yabloko