02:55, 16 September 2025

Shakhty resident receives suspended sentence for calls to extremism

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The court sentenced Igor Vakhtin, a resident of Shakhty, to two years of probation for calls for violence against representatives of another nationality.

According to the press service of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Rostov Region, Vakhtin posted a comment in one of the groups on the social network "VKontakte" that contained calls for violence against a group of people identified on the basis of nationality.

The court found the resident of Shakhty guilty of public calls for extremist activity on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and sentenced him to two years of imprisonment conditionally, Kommersant wrote on September 15.

Earlier, "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote that the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don at the end of July sentenced Krasnodar resident Vladislav Solokhin to a fine for calls for "destruction of the symbols of the current government."

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