The mayor's office of Krasnoyarsk said that unknown people in the city are damaging posters about military service under contract, and threatened them with criminal prosecution.
So, according to the authorities, recently in Krasnoyarsk one of the recruitment posters was defaced : They put an inscription on it and tore it in several places. The poster itself was located at one of the city stops. The security forces are now looking for those who did this.
Damaged poster/Photo: Telegram channel «Krasnoyarsk City Hall»
“Advertising comes in different forms. And when advertising of a product is damaged, it is ordinary vandalism, for which fines are provided. However, in this case, as in the photo, one can already discern an act that falls under the Criminal Code,” the city administration’s post says. After these words, the publication quotes the text of an article from the Criminal Code about “discrediting” the army (280.3 of the Criminal Code).
In addition, the post mentions that on November 16 a sentence was passed under this article: seven years in prison. Probably, we are talking about the verdict of the artist from St. Petersburg Sasha Skochilenko, who was sentenced on the same day to seven years in a general regime colony. At the same time, Skochilenko was not charged with an article about “discrediting” the army, but with spreading “fakes” motivated by political hatred (clause “e” of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).
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