Activist from Activist from Khanty-Mansiysk, West Siberia, fined 80,000 roubles under two protocols on “discrediting the army”
Press Release, 5.06.2022
Photo: Ivan Menshenin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Ivan Menshenin, a member of the Yabloko party in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District, West Siberia, and a candidate for the State Duma in 2021, was fined twice under Article 20.3.3, Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation”). The fines total 80,000 roubles.
In his posts on VKontakte and Telegram social networks, Menshenin tells how he feels after the start of the so-called “special operation” in Ukraine, and also talks about its tragic consequences.
“No fines will make me change my attitude towards ***. It is possible to make on shut up by violence, but it is impossible to make one think differently. One have to convince people to make them think differently, but not beat them on the head. But they only succeed in convincing themselves, in their own rightness,” Ivan Menshenin said.
Menshenin became one of at least thirteen members of Yabloko getting a protocol on “discrediting the army”.
Read more about the persecution of Yabloko members after the start of the “special operation”.
Posted: June 6th, 2022 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.