Yuri Vashurin
- Criminal Code
- Article 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Cases related to mass actions
- Region
- Chelyabinsk Oblast
- City
- Chelyabinsk
Case summary
On 13 June 2018, Vashurin was searched, after which he was taken to the police station. Later it became known that the investigation considers Vashurin involved in hooliganism motivated by political hatred in connection with participation in the action "He is not our Tsar" on 5 May 2018. In July 2019, Vashurin was charged.
On 14 January 2021, the court acquitted Vashurin.
Others charged under Article 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
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