Quietly jumped off the curator’s hook.” Such banners have appeared in St. Petersburg. It’s an ad for a government project to help teenagers

“Quietly jumped off the curator’s hook.” Such banners have appeared in St. Petersburg. It’s an ad for a government project to help teenagers

Social advertising has appeared in St. Petersburg urging teenagers not to give in to provocations.

Photos of an advertising screen were published on Facebook; it shows portraits of teenagers and the captions: “Cool-headedly backed out of setting fire to a relay cabinet and didn’t get 10 years for arson,” “Fearlessly backed out of setting fire to a cell tower and didn’t get 10 years for sabotage,” “Quietly jumped off the curator’s hook and didn’t get 15 years for an explosion.”

This is an ad for the “Vykhod31” project, launched in August by the Russian authorities.

The project website says that “Vykhod 31” was created “in response to increasingly frequent attempts to induce young Russians to commit arson, bombings, and other terrorist attacks.”

The name refers to Article 31 of the Criminal Code on voluntary отказ from a crime.

According to Mediazona, since the start of the full-scale war, at least 240 teenagers have been detained in the Russian Federation on charges of terrorism or sabotage.

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