A university in Yekaterinburg tackles a case of ‘immoral photoediting’

The Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg is tackling an iniquitous case of photoediting that involves two students adding a friend’s headshot to a picture of a Nazi soldier. The image was apparently shared on the friend’s Vkontakte page for about two days, before someone anonymously informed the university’s security department that the school could have a fascist cell on its hands. In a letter reportedly written to the university’s administration, the security department urges the school to expel the three students involved in the prank.

Even though the three individuals have expressed their disapproval of racism and insisted that the montage was nothing more than a “bad joke,” the security department apparently believes that such “vile and immoral” humor is sufficient grounds to send them home without diplomas. According to the website Znak.com, the students’ classmates have already been “questioned.”