The Chukhloma District Court of the Kostroma Region sentenced the owner of a bookstore in Soligalich, Yan Kulikov, to six months of correctional labor in the case of military “fakes.” The press service of the court reported this to OVD-Info.
The reason for the criminal prosecution was Kulikov’s publications on VKontakte on July 16 and 17, 2022 (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). One of the posts talked about attacks by the Russian army on residential areas of Nikopol from «Grads», another — about the shelling of civilian infrastructure and civilians in Mariupol, Odessa, Kramatorsk, Kharkov, Vinnitsa, Kremenchug, Chasov Yar and other cities of Ukraine.
In March 2022, Kulikov was fined under the article on the demonstration of Nazi symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). The reason for this was that, in response to a pro-war comment on VKontakte, he reposted a video of soldiers of Nazi Germany marching, and then Russian troops wearing stripes with the letter Z.
On the same day, Kulikov was assigned 25 thousand rubles fine under the protocol on organizing a rally without filing a notice due to a post announcing an anti-war action (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).
Last September, VKontakte blocked Kulikov’s page at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, and in October, the owner of the bookstore was fined 80 thousand rubles under a protocol for “discrediting” the army with calls for unauthorized actions (Part 2 of Article 20.3 .3 Administrative Code).