Russian citizen who posted picture of Hitler online eight years ago fined €21,600 over ‘rehabilitating Nazism’

20/03/2023

Chukotka’s court has fined a 41-year-old resident of the Anadyr town 1.8 million rubles (€21,600) over charges of rehabilitating Nazism online, local news agency Chukotka reports, citing the regional department of Russia’s Investigative Committee.

Mediazona notes that according to the court database the man in question is Roman Novikov. His sentencing took place on 6 March. The reason for initiation of the criminal case was a social media post dated 5 January 2015 — the post featured a photo of Adolf Hitler. The post was discovered by law enforcement officers.

“The image was accompanied by a message containing public justification of the Nazi ideology,” the Chukotka news agency quotes the investigators.

The criminal case against the man was initiated in November 2022. According to the investigation, he pleaded guilty; his case was considered in a special manner, without examining the evidence.

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