According to the court, 26-year-old Eduard Sharlot had, among other things, “rehabilitated Nazi ideology” with the videos he published online.
On Friday, a Russian court ordered a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence for a singer who had protested Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine in his videos.
According to the court, 26 years old Eduard Charlotte had “publicly denigrated” people’s religious feelings and “rehabilitated Nazi ideology” with the videos he published online. In a video he published in June of last year, he burned his Russian passport as a protest against the war. In another video, he crucified a photo of the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, who has vehemently supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Sharlot was apprehended in November last year at St. Petersburg airport after trying to return to Russia after first fleeing the trial in Armenia.
According to the news agency AFP, practically all opponents of the Russian leadership are either in exile, in prison or dead.