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Russian Court Fines Anti-War Protester for Using Vladimir Mayakovsky’s Avant-Garde Poetry to ‘Discredit’ the Military

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A court in Yekaterinburg has found an anti-war protester guilty of using a poem by avant-garde poet Vladimir Mayakovsky to “discredit” the Russian military, the independent news outlet Sotavision reported on Tuesday.

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The Yekaterinburg High Court fined the resident of Kirovgrad, Dmitri Rykov, who was on a picket with a quote from poems...

The Upper Isetsk Court in Yekaterinburg fined the resident of Kirovgrad, Dmitri Rykov, for the picket that he had picked up with a poster quoted from a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky's Dola. Rykov was found guilty of "discrediting" the Russian army (article 20.3.3 of the CoAAP) and fined him 49,000 rubles, reports SOTAvison from the court.

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Mediazona broke the news in on Tuesday, December 16, 2025.
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