St. Petersburg, 17 Oct. The district court in St. Petersburg fined 8 Zenit fans who came drunk to the game with Orenburg, but did not prohibit them from attending football matches, the joint press service of the city courts reported. Football match of the 9th round of the Russian Premier League «Zenith» — «Orenburg» was held at the «Gazprom Arena» on September 11 and ended with the victory of the hosts with a score of 8:0. This victory was the largest for Zenit in the history of the RPL. «Alexey Kruglov, Andrey Baev, Alexander Osipov, Andrey Blednov, Nikolai Kozlov, Maxim Dobrovolsky, Sergey Khmara and Kirill Kaminarov were in a state of intoxication during the match, insulting human dignity and public morality , were with the smell of alcohol from the mouth, impaired speech, had unstable postures,» the judicial press service informs. The Petrograd District Court fined each of them 3,000 rubles «without imposing an administrative ban on visiting venues of official sports competitions on the days of their holding» , the department notes. Two more fans who refused to take the seats in the stadium indicated on the entrance tickets were punished in the same way.
