A blogger who asked for a "cover-up" at the "Motherland Calls!" statue was sentenced to a year of forced labor with a 10% salary deduction.

Marcel Akhiyaretdinov He was found guilty of rehabilitating Nazism. He does not plan to appeal the verdict; he admitted his guilt in court and expressed remorse.

As reported by Marcel Akhiyaretdinov,NotMoscow"He is not officially employed anywhere, but he worked part-time at a car service center.

The forced labor sentence requires detention in a correctional center. However, the court took into account the health of the defendant's father, who requires care, and ordered him to serve his sentence at his place of residence—a small village in Kushnarenkovsky district The Republic of Bashkortostan, and it is still unclear where exactly Akhiyaretdinov will have to return after work—to his father or to some kind of “government house.”

In addition to the correctional labor, the court prohibited Akhiyaretdinov from engaging in anything related to online publications.

The state prosecution demanded that the blogger be sentenced to two years in a penal colony and a ban on publishing on the internet for four years.

In February of this year, Akhiyaretdinov published a video in which asked Fishing season Reconstruct the "Motherland Calls!" sculpture. The man cited "traditional family values," which, in his opinion, the Volgograd monument's appearance does not reflect.

«We, the brotherly people, Vladimir Vladimirovich, our mother cannot look like this <> According to many people in Volgograd, they want to preserve this monument, but change this appearance and cover up her shameful places"Akhiyaretdinov requested. After this, the head of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin instructed check His statement offends the feelings of believers. The blogger himself preaches Islam.

Marcel told NeMoskva that before the publication of the appeal to Putin requesting the reconstruction of the monument, many supported his proposal to "cover" the exposed body parts, including Muslim clergy, but after public condemnation, they suddenly retracted their words and "turned away" from the initiator.