A Moscow court has imposed a 50,000-ruble ($560) fine on a TV presenter and actress who gained notoriety for hosting an “almost naked” party, saying her social media posts calling for peace discredited the military.
FILE - TV presenter and actress Anastasia Ivleeva, center, perform during VK Festival in Moscow, Russia, on July 15, 2023. A Moscow court on Thursday imposed a 50,000-ruble fine for discrediting the military on Anastasia Ivleeva, a TV presenter and actress whose party for scantily clad guests sparked an explosion of public indignation in the increasingly traditionalist country.
One of the posts on Instagram, which is blocked in Russia but often accessed by VPN, showed a black square and the words “No to war." The other showed a sketch of a dove and called on authorities to “reach those compromises that would stop the killing of people.” Oleg Orlov, co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization Memorial, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for criticism of the war. Orlov separately has been designated a “foreign agent” and was to appeal that ruling in a Thursday court hearing by videolink, but the hearing was held in a courtroom without that capability, the Mediazona news site reported.
Photos from the party circulated widely on social media. Conservative legislators, bloggers and others then unleashed a storm of criticism, contending the images were unseemly, even unpatriotic, for a country embroiled in war.
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