Nationalist Dyomushkin fined 200,000 rubles for setting up extremist group
MOSCOW. March 17 (Interfax) - A court in Moscow's Ostankino District has sentenced the leader of the Russkiye (Russians) nationalist association, Dmitry Dyomushkin, to a 200,000-ruble fine in a case over the banned Slavic Union, but spared him the penalty in view of the expired statute of limitations.
Dyomushkin was found guilty of setting up an extremist organization (Article 282.2(1) of the Russian Criminal Code), an Interfax correspondent said. The court ruled against enforcing the penalty because the statute of limitations had expired long ago.
Dyomushkin set up and headed up the extremist organization which used banned slogans was aimed at illegal propaganda, according to the court verdict.
The court deemed that the suspect can only reform himself through a penalty in the form of a fine. But Dyomushkin will not have to pay it as the case's statute of limitations has expired. The travel restrictions imposed on the nationalist earlier have been lifted. After the court session Dyomushkin vowed to appeal the verdict.
Earlier the prosecutor asked the court to impose a fine of 200,000 rubles and exempt the defendant from it in view of the expired statute of limitations.
A number of criminal cases were opened against Dyomushkin in 2011, but only one of them was taken to a court.