Tatyana Pasman, a teacher, Holocaust researcher and current city council deputy from Yabloko, has been fined 1,000 rubles by the Pskov City Court in an administrative case over the display of Nazi symbols. The party says the case was based on a Facebook post that did not appear on her page.
The hearing was held behind closed doors. According to the party, proceedings began at 11:00 and lasted more than five hours, while the ruling was announced only at 19:00. Observers and journalists were not allowed into the courtroom.
According to the accusation, Pasman posted images on Facebook related to Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. The images compared the Palestinian group’s actions with those of Nazi Germany; one of them featured a caricature of Adolf Hitler with a swastika.
Yabloko said the publication belonged to another person. The party stated that the protocol itself named a different author, and that the personal link led not to Pasman’s page but to someone else’s account.
Pasman also referred to a note to Article 20.3 of Russia’s administrative code, which allows the use of Nazi symbols when it is intended to express a negative attitude toward that ideology and does not amount to propaganda or justification.
The court did not accept those arguments and imposed the fine. Pasman has spent many years researching the Holocaust and preserving the memory of its victims in the Pskov region, and she regularly takes part in memorial events in Russia and abroad.
She is also a sitting Pskov city council deputy and a candidate in elections to the State Duma and the Pskov Regional Assembly. According to the report, the fine strips her of the right to run for office. Earlier, four other Yabloko politicians in Pskov — Artur Gaiduk, Svetlana Vasilyeva, Tatyana Fedorova and Ivan Prishchepa — were also barred from elections over accusations of displaying extremist symbols.