A 20 ruble fine for the "Swan Lake" Cooperative banner.

Smolninsky court St. Petersburg fined two residents - Sergey Khachatryan и Vladislava Arsenyev — for the fact that on January 29 they attached banners reading “Down with the Swan Lake cooperative” to the fence of Ovsyannikovsky Garden and then launched them into the sky.

How to wrote The head of the United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg posted on her Telegram channel Daria LebedevaThe "guys" deliberately held a "public event in the form of picketing" without submitting a notice of holding a public event in the prescribed manner.

“The purpose [of the picket] was to express one’s opinion and shape the opinion of others regarding current socio-political issues, namely, with the goal of undermining the political regime,”

— wrote Daria Lebedeva.

As Lebedeva noted, Sergei and Vladislav refused to give any explanations in court. The court imposed a fine of 20,000 rubles each.