9-million fine for pouring paint over monument to Lenin

• 11.01.2010, 16:53

On January 11, Valery Tsinkevich, the court of the Navahrudak district court, delivered a judgement to Yury Kazak, an activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party.

The court fined the youth activist 250 basic units (8,750,000 rubles, or 3,089 dollars), co-head of the BCD party Alyaksei Shein told “Nasha Niva” newspaper.

This, the judge satisfied the demand of the state prosecutor. Individual entrepreneur Yury Kazak must pay a fine within a month, otherwise he can face prison.

We remind that on November 7, Yury Kazak poured green paint to the monument to Vladimir Lenin on the main square of Navahrudak. The young man admitted it was he who had done that. But, as said by Kazak at the trial, his aim was not to destroy the monument, but to attract attention of public to the problem of praising the communist past of Belarus by the Belarusian authorities.

It should be noted that daughter Rahneda has recently born to 25-year-old Yury Kazak. His wife hasn’t been discharged form hospital yet.