The Presnensky District Court of Moscow fined the technology company Teletor 10 thousand rubles under the protocol on displaying prohibited symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). This was reported to Mediazona by the press service of the court.
The ruling on the court's website states that on April 24, at the Svyaz-2024 exhibition, which was held at the Moscow Expocenter, Teletor employees named their Wi-Fi networks SLAVA UKRAINE and SLAVA UKRAINE_5G. According to security officials, in this way the company employees propagated the “slogan of Ukrainian nationalists.”
Teletor representatives said at the trial that they did not admit guilt. According to them, they learned about the names of their networks only after the security forces drew up a protocol. In addition, they assured that it was impossible to establish who exactly named the SLAVA UKRAINE access points. The company's defender insisted that the phrase itself, written in Latin, but without a response slogan, “cannot be Nazi.”
The court rejected the defense’s arguments. In addition to the fine, the company was also confiscated “the subject of an administrative offense” — an ASUS router that distributed Wi-Fi at the exhibition.
In the spring, Moscow State University student Oleg Tarasov, who created a Wi-Fi network in the dormitory called Slava Ukraine, was arrested for ten days in Moscow! The security forces also seized the young man’s router.