The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg fined 19-year-old Ivan Bukin 15 thousand rubles, who in February laid flowers at the Black Tulip monument, dedicated to those killed during the wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya. This was reported by an It’s My City correspondent from the courtroom.
Judge Vladimir Ushakov found Bukin, whose father was mobilized for the war in Ukraine, guilty under the protocol of violating the rules of holding rallies (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).
The police and the court considered the laying of flowers to be participation in an uncoordinated action of the “Way Home” movement. Its participants are trying to get the authorities to sign a decree on the completion of mobilization and the return of relatives from the front.
On February 10, several dozen local residents, including relatives of those mobilized, gathered on Soviet Army Square near the Black Tulip memorial. Bukin was detained by police in black down jackets along with another four people. They were taken to the police department on Frunze Street. At the department, people in balaclavas interacted with the detainee and refused to provide documents.
Initially, the young man was released from the police after learning that his father had been mobilized; The protocol against him was drawn up only on March 28. Police officer Varvara Khairullina indicated in the document that Bukin participated in an unauthorized picket because he used a white scarf and carnations “as means of propaganda.”
Bukin himself said in court that the white scarf was part of his everyday clothes, and he laid flowers according to family tradition and did not call for anything. He explained that he did not have a mother, and his father was taken to the front. Bukin told It's My City that he lives on a survivor's pension.
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Earlier, the same court arrested Albert Yakupov for eight days, another person detained while laying flowers at the monument. He was found guilty under the protocol of organizing an action without filing a notification (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).
According to the police, Yakupov, in a chat with 30 people under the nickname Albert, “called on people to come to an unauthorized picket” in order to “express the demand for complete demobilization and the end of the SVO.” The Yekaterinburg resident spent the night at the police department.