The Attorney General's Office in Altai, a republic in southern Siberia, is holding a jailed convict responsible for a Nazi swastika tattoo he got on his neck in 1999.
The Altai Attorney General's Office says the “square, slanting fascist swastika” has been “viewable by prison employees and other convicts.” Therefore, the tattoo “amounted to the public display of Nazi symbols.”
The Attorney General's Office says the convict violated the law “on perpetuating the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.”
The convict is being fined 1000 rubles (about $15). Whether the convict must remove the tattoo has not been specified.