5 years in prison for communist symbols.

On July 12, the prosecutor's office of the Ivano-Frankivsk region (western Ukraine) reported that a local court sentenced a resident of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk to 5 years in prison for using communist symbols on social networks: https://ifr.gp.gov.ua/ua/news.html?_m=publications&_c=view&_t=rec&id=316148

In Ukraine, the use of communist symbols and the expression of communist views is a crime (Article 436-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

"In court, the prosecutor said that during 2019-22, the defendant systematically distributed and publicly used materials depicting the symbols of the communist totalitarian regime on the banned social network Vkontakte," prosecutors told Ivano-Frankivsk.

The prosecutors also said that the woman "promoted the ideas of the revival of the USSR, justified the criminal communist regime and glorified Lenin and Stalin."

Prosecutors emphasize that the convicted woman was born in Russia, but since 2015 she has received Ukrainian citizenship and lives in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk.