Siberian court fines man for interviews about earlier fine for social media post describing dream about Zelensky

A court in the Siberian city of Chita has fined local resident Ivan Losev 35,000 rubles (almost $500) on two counts of “discrediting” the Russian army for two interviews he gave about an earlier fine he received, he told the independent outlet Mediazona. The earlier fine was punishment for a social media post in which he described a dream he had about Volodymyr Zelensky.

According to Losev, the new charges came after two different women reported him to the authorities for two separate interviews about his first fine: one with TV Rain and one with the BBC.

Last month, Losev’s mother, Nelly Loseva, was fined the equivalent of about $437 for clicking “Like” under an anti-war post on social media.