Apparently, pooling money to cover outrageously imposed fines, "won" lawsuits, and so on is becoming one form of collective resistance.
These crooks have chosen a strategy of ruining both individual activists and organizations: penalties running into hundreds of thousands and even millions of rubles have become routine. It is impossible to stand up to this alone.
You probably remember the story of Vadim Korovin, who refused to give way to an official government car violating traffic rules. A fabricated case was brought against him, claiming that he had supposedly run into a traffic police officer. And it was fabricated so blatantly that even the judge had no choice but to issue a special ruling regarding some of the "evidence".
But in the end, the court still refused to treat Korovin's video recording of the incident as evidence; he was convicted and given a criminal fine of 100,000 rubles.
Since I am against official government cars that violate traffic rules, and against investigators and judges who fabricate cases, here is my contribution toward Vadim Korovin's fine:
PS A special announcement for employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN): of course, Alexei did not personally transfer this money himself; the pronoun "I" is used for stylistic consistency across all posts on this blog. But the 1,000 rubles are his, yes.
PPS This, of course, is just absolutely astonishing. Some people really are like that.
People