Former Investigative Committee Investigator Fined Over Poster Comparing Kyiv to Besieged Leningrad

A former Investigative Committee investigator was fined over a poster comparing Kyiv to besieged Leningrad

A court in the Leningrad region fined former Investigative Committee investigator Yanina P. 30,000 rubles in early April after she staged an anti-war protest. Verstka found the corresponding ruling in the court database.

The document conceals information about when exactly the protest took place. According to the ruling, the woman placed a wooden frame by an advertising billboard at a local shopping center bearing the words “Know that because of the destruction of the energy system, people in Kyiv are freezing as in besieged Leningrad”.

As a result, the woman was charged under the article on “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). In court, the woman admitted that she had placed the frame, but stated that she “had no intent to discredit” the Russian Armed Forces. According to her, she was exercising her rights guaranteed by Article 29 of the Constitution.

Despite this, the court found that the poster is perceived as a “attempt to undermine the authority, image, and trust in the army among citizens of the Russian Federation, and forms a negative perception of the actions of the President of the Russian Federation within the framework of the special military operation,” and found the woman guilty of the offense.

According to leaks from state databases, at least until 2020 Yanina P. worked as an investigator for especially important cases in the Sosnovy Bor interdistrict investigative department. In 2018, she was awarded the distinction “Best Investigator.”

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