The court fined Dmitry Silin 30 thousand rubles under the article on discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. A pensioner told the police that he had written, "No [Roskomnadzor]" on a building’s wall. He claims that he did not do it. The activist informed 7x7 about this.
Dmitry Silin said that the court had considered only the pensioner’s words as proof. No one checked the recordings from CCTV cameras. Silin is going to appeal the fine.
"Some elderly woman reported that it had supposedly been me. At the same time, she said that the person who had drawn the inscription had been wearing no glasses. I have myopia and glaucoma, I cannot do without them," said the social activist.
Information technology businessman Dmitry Silin and lawyer Anastasia Rudenko started holding distribution events at the site of three Ivanovo universities after the special operation began. They gave away more than 600 books to the residents of Ivanovo: 1984, Animal Farm by George Orwell, and Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy about the Caucasian War. Activists spent about 100 thousand rubles on them.
Early in the morning of April 26, the police came to search the apartment where Dmitry Silin was registered. He learned about it from his son. Neighbors told the security forces that the businessman did not live at the registration address, and they left. Rudenko linked the search to a criminal case on vandalism in Shuya: in March, unknown people wrote the phrase, «No [Roskomnadzor]» on the local administration’s wall.