A district court in Rostov-on-Don has fined a local resident for a comment he left on VK under a post about the Taliban, citing an administrative statute on inciting hatred, the Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti reported.
The resident is a 19-year-old identified as Yegor A. — Meduza found the court ruling, which includes his last name and states that he works at Aerotekh. The VK community post was titled “The Taliban will flood Russia with grenades, raisins, Coca-Cola, carpets, and cotton.” Under it, Yegor A. wrote: “What the fuck are they doing in Russia, cave-dwelling assholes?”
The court found that the comment “incites hatred or enmity between the people of the Russian Federation and Afghanistan.” Yegor A. was also charged with several additional comments directed at migrants.
According to the ruling, he admitted guilt and expressed remorse. He was fined 10,000 rubles.
In Russia, the Taliban, which came to power in Afghanistan in 2021, had been banned and designated a terrorist organization. In December 2024, the State Duma passed a law allowing the group to be removed from that list, and in April 2025, Russia’s Supreme Court delisted the Taliban.
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