In Russia, a sentence was passed for a disrespectful comment about Victory Day

The Smolensk Regional Court handed down a verdict in a criminal case against a 29-year-old local resident under Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (rehabilitation of Nazism committed in public, using the Internet information and telecommunications network). This was reported by the press service of the regional prosecutor's office.

According to the supervisory authority, in April 2022 and 2023, the defendant, in one of the social networks, as well as an open public community, posted comments expressing obvious disrespect for society and containing a contemptuously negative attitude towards The Day of Military Glory of Russia is the Victory Day of the Soviet People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

Thus, she violated "the moral norms for preserving the historical memory of the feat of the Soviet people in the fight against the Nazi invaders."

The Russian woman was assigned 2 years of forced labor with deduction of 5% of wages to the state income. She is also banned from administering websites and posting materials on the Internet for three years.

As EADaily reported, in early April, a Russian streamer received 2 years and 6 months in a strict regime colony for a crime under a similar article. He is known in the online community under the pseudonym "cockroach". During the broadcast, he spat several times on the St. George ribbon. The broadcast was conducted on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.