A young man from Akyar detained for writing on ballot paper

March 19, 2024

An 18-year-old resident of Akyar (Sevastopol) was detained for writing an anti-war inscription “No war, peace to Ukraine” on a ballot during the “presidential elections in Russia.”

According to Russian investigators, on March 17, the man wrote an anti-war inscription in the ballot, put it in the box and left. The staff of the polling station somehow noticed the inscription and, according to ASTRA and an entire investigative team  headed by the deputy head of the public order department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs was sent to the polling station.

Eventually, Russian security forces detained the man. They want to open a case against him under the article on “discrediting” the Russian army.