The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow arrested Other Russia activist Alexander Rybkin for 15 days under an article on displaying prohibited symbols (part 1 of article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for tattooing the logo of the British darkfolk band Death in June and a rune from the Scandinavian futhark Algiz . This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by the party's press secretary. =»SingleImage_caption__2bWvj»>
Photo: The Other Russia
Rybkin will serve an administrative arrest in a special detention center in Sakharovo. The day before, the activist was detained right at the exit from the same special detention center, where he spent 15 days under the same article because of the demonstration of the logo of the party “Another Russia E.V. Limonov» in the video.
The Apology human rights project reported that this time law enforcement officers found a photo with allegedly prohibited symbols on Rybkin's VK page, and experts identified the activist's tattoo as «the Nazi rune Algiz.» At the same time, the Algiz rune itself was used in the Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon runic alphabets as a designation for a yew tree and to convey the consonant «retroflex approximant» or the sound [ks].
With the coming to power in Germany, the National Socialists appropriated rune Algiz, based on the esoteric and occult works of Guido von List, and used it as a «symbol of life» for the design of the emblems of various organizations.
The British band Death in June, whose logo is depicted on Rybkin's tattoo, exploits in its creativity some elements associated with the era of the Third Reich. In this regard, the musicians faced bans and restrictions in Europe and the USA. At the same time, the leader of the project, Douglas Pierce, comes from the milieu of antifa activists, and the group itself rejects all attempts to classify them as neo-Nazis.