Russian authorities have opened a criminal case against Mikhail Svetov, the leader of the Libertarian Party of Russia, for allegedly rehabilitating Nazism. The case was reportedly initiated after the Telegram channel of Svetov's party posted a song about controversial Ukrainian mid-20th-century nationalist Stepan Bandera. Svetov, who is not in Russia currently, was included in November in Russia's "foreign agents" register. In June, Moscow's Savelovsky Court fined him 40,000 rubles ($430) for not being labeled a "foreign agent" in one of his YouTube videos. In 2019, Svetov was sentenced to 30 days in jail after being found guilty of violating laws on holding public events. To read the original story by Current Time, click here.
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