A court in Moscow has fined Kirill Martynov, the chief editor of Novaya Gazeta Europe, 30,000 rubles (€360) for failing to attach a “foreign agent disclaimer” to a post he made on VK, Russia’s social media website, Martynov’s lawyer Ilnur Sharapov says.
According to the court verdict, the reason behind the fine is Martynov’s comment to a post written by his former student peer. The latter posted the following: “Kirill Martynov. My former collegemate. If I were a [police officer], I would sentence Kirill to serve time in a maximum security penitentiary, somewhere where there’s hard labour in the fresh air, and a selection of leisure activities at a prison entertainment club, such as reading books or playing chess.” Martynov reposted this, adding a comment: “What do your collegemates dream of?”