The 1st Western District Military Court sentenced Viktor Loginov, accused of appeals to extremism and terrorism on the Internet. This was reported by the press service of the St. Petersburg courts.
Loginov was also banned from administering websites and channels for five years. The court released him from serving his sentence in a colony due to illness.
The court found that on the evening of August 24, 2021, Loginov published a video on his social networks with the caption “September 19 – elections! What to do?». The man accompanied the post with a comment with an image “showing support and solidarity” for the video. According to the court, the video contained public calls to disrupt the elections.
In September 2022, Loginov posted a post with a still frame of Vladimir Putin’s speech. In this recording, the court saw calls for an attack on the life of a statesman, but judging by the case file, the man was not charged with this article.
Calls for extremism were found in two posts by Loginov from November 2022 and January 2024 — with an image of a rat against the background of the Star of David. According to the court, these publications contained incitement to violent actions against Jews.
Loginov did not admit guilt and refused to testify, the court added. The prosecution was represented by a prosecutor from Karelia.
In April 2021, the Prionezhsky District Court of Karelia fined Loginov's full namesake from the Karelian village of Novaya Vilga 10 thousand rubles under a protocol on organizing an uncoordinated action (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). The case was opened against him due to a post on VKontakte with the date and time of rallies in support of Alexei Navalny in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The human rights project «OVD-Info» reported at the time that the man had a first-degree disability and would not appear in court because he could not move independently. Loginov himself said that he did not consider himself a supporter of Navalny, but was sure that everything that happened to the politician was lawlessness.