A court in Samara fined Mikhail Abdalkin, a deputy of the Samara Provincial Duma, 2,500 rubles for a song posted on his page on the VKontakte social network. As lawyer Aleksey Lapuzin said on his Telegram channel, the deputy was found guilty under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (dissemination of extremist materials).
The reason for drawing up the protocol was the song of the group "Electric Partisans" called "Star and Automatic", included in the list of extremist materials of the Ministry of Justice. As Abalkin wrote, the police “dropped everything and listened to 6,000 of my audio recordings.”
Earlier in March, Abdalkin, who is a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Left Front, was fined 150,000 rubles under an article about discrediting the army because of a video in which he listened to Vladimir Putin's message to the Federal Assembly, hanging noodles on his ears. In February 2021, the deputy was arrested for 5 days after he went on a picket in support of the Penza City Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Alexander Rogozhkin.