MOSCOW, June 23 The Nikulinsky Court of Moscow fined the writer Dmitry Bykov* for 40,000 rubles* for posts on the Telegram channel without a foreign agent's badge, the press reported. court service.
“The court ruled to find him guilty of committing an administrative offense under part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation and to impose an administrative fine of 40,000 rubles,” the court said.
The reason for compiling the protocol was several posts in his Telegram channel without a corresponding indication of a foreign agency.
As stated in the court decision, the writer himself did not appear in the courtroom, but his lawyer came, who asked, taking into account the objective side of the offense and the personality of his principal, to impose a punishment below the lowest limit or to terminate the proceedings due to insignificance .
* An individual acting as a foreign agent