Arseev Anatoliy Nikolaevich

In January 2023, a criminal case was initiated against Anatoly Arseev, a municipal deputy from Kotlas, in the Arkhangelsk region, for repeated 'discrediting of the army'. On February 3, FSB and Investigative Committee officers conducted a search of his home. Since June 9, he has been under house arrest. VKontakte comments under posts about mobilized people from the Arkhangelsk region became the reason for initiating a criminal case. Instead of promoting the sending of new groups of mobilized people to an unnecessary war, it would be better for you to post about the need to stop military actions, the purpose of which is to prolong the power of an aging tsar, the man wrote under a post in the "Uslyshano: Koryazhma, Kotlas" community. Everything that is happening is not for the sake of people's lives, but to preserve Putin's power for several more decades. Why he first changed the constitution. And since the rating fell after raising the retirement age and semi-forced vaccination, he decided to raise it with the help of a "small victorious special operation." "As Nicholas II did in 1905, he commented on the publication in the group "Kotlas Gossip. Earlier, in May 2022, the deputy was fined 30 thousand rubles under the article on discrediting the RF Armed Forces due to comments on VK under posts about the death of residents of the Arkhangelsk region in the war and about an anti-war action in Tbilisi. Later, Arseev's page was blocked at the request of the RF General Prosecutor's Office. On October 17, 2023, the Kotlas District Court found Anatoly Arseev guilty and sentenced him to a fine of 120 thousand. rubles. December 26, the Arkhangelsk Regional Court upheld the verdict.