A stand about “Nazism” was set up in the central market of Voronezh, which was accompanied by photographs of representatives of Nazi Germany, as well as President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukrainian MP Yulia Tymoshenko.
In addition, according to the Voronezh project Vornadzor , a photograph from a 2009 rally in Moscow in memory of the murdered lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova was used at the stand.
Vornadzor established that the photo had been photoshopped and the inscription on one of the posters was changed to “Death to Russia! More kills." The original poster read "Your silence is an excuse for murder."
The activists appealed to the prosecutor's office with a request to check the photograph presented at the booth in Voronezh for inciting ethnic hatred.
Journalist Anastasia Baburova and lawyer Stanislav Markelov were killed in Moscow on January 19, 2009. They were returning from a press conference on the early release of GRU Colonel Yuri Budanov, who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing in 2000 an 18-year-old Chechen girl, Elza Kungayeva. Markelov represented the interests of the girl's family. Baburova, as a journalist for Novaya Gazeta, wrote many anti-fascist articles.
The court found guilty members of the neo-Nazi group "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" Evgenia Khasis and Nikita Tikhonov. In 2011, Tikhonov was found guilty of murder, arms trafficking and making forged documents and sentenced to life in prison, while Khasis received 18 years in prison.
At the beginning of 2022, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation changed the sentence of the neo-Nazi Khasis, reducing the term of imprisonment by 1 year – from 18 to 17 years.
