The Zelenogradsky District Court of Moscow fined a man 1 thousand because of a swastika tattoo. As the joint press service of the capital's courts reported, his name is Pavel Kukharev.
Kukharev was found guilty on July 12 under the protocol on the demonstration of Nazi symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code).
The ruling published on the court’s website states that on July 10, a drunken Kukharev “openly displayed tattoos depicting a stylized wreath and cross-shaped signs with ends bent at right angles — a swastika.” He fully admitted his guilt.
The channel “Caution, Moscow” calls Kukhrev “a member of the SVO from the Wagner PMC.” A person’s page with the same passport data can be found on the website of the Luka.Zone project, which collects information about people involved in the crimes of Alexander Lukashenko’s regime.
According to the project, Kukharev, who was born in Brest, had a criminal record for hijacking, theft, theft of documents, causing grievous bodily harm, and setting fire to the monument to “Prisoners of the Ghetto” (news about the arson of this monument in Brest appeared repeatedly at the end of the 2000s) . According to the project, after moving to Russia, he was convicted of a criminal offense and joined the ranks of the PMC Wagner fighters in order to reduce his prison term.
Kukharev’s pages on social networks are closed, but they remain on the Luka website. Zone photo you can see his tattoos with runes, Kolovrat and other attributes of neo-Nazi aesthetics. In the same photo, Kukharev shows his ID as a veteran of the Russian Armed Forces; there are medals on his T-shirt, including “For Courage.”