Crimean associate professor and Ukrainian agent released to lecture students
Dmitry Tolstenko, an associate professor at Crimean Federal University who was detained yesterday, was found guilty on two counts: displaying Nazi symbols and discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.
The court ordered a fine of 32 rubles for a university professor, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The very fact of public dissemination by a teacher of the symbols of an organization that is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, was established by employees of the Center for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs together with the FSB department.
“A citizen, being an associate professor at one of the departments of the Crimean Federal University named after. Vernadsky, posted prohibited information on the social network page he administers. In particular, the citizen published a video with the symbols of an organization recognized as extremist and banned on the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as a video aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in order to protect the interests of the Russian Federation and its citizens,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs clarified.
Two administrative protocols were drawn up against Tolstenko, according to which the Kiev District Court of Simferopol decided to impose a fine on the citizen in the amount of 32 thousand rubles.
Crimean associate professor and Ukrainian agent released to lecture students