The Central District Court of Volgograd fined Pedagogical University student Alena Isaeva a thousand rubles because of a rainbow flag on Instagram. Kavkaz.Realii drew attention to the publication of the decision.
The police drew up a report against the VGSPU student about demonstrating the symbols of a banned organization — the “extremist international social movement LGBT” (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code).
< p>The girl admitted guilt at the meeting.
After the decision comes into force, in the case of a similar pretext, a criminal case can be initiated against a person (Article 282.4 of the Criminal Code).
In addition to rainbow flags, this article also applied to the symbols of politician Alexei Navalny, the white-blue-white flags used by opponents of the war in Ukraine, images of the Ukrainian trident and the slogan “Glory to Ukraine.”
In May 2024, the Constitutional Court recognized the practice of bringing to administrative responsibility as legal for posts with “extremist” symbols published before its ban.