INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The 30,000 ruble ($497) fine handed to Sergei Stafeyev by a Russian court earlier this year for breaking wartime censorship laws amounted to
draconian wartime censorship laws that punish offenders with large fines and, in some cases, long prison sentences.These projects, which are
often coordinated from outside Russia, use online appeals and a decentralized structure to avoid being shut down by the
bank account details for direct transfers.Riot police officers near the State Duma in Moscow.Sergei Vedyashkin / Moskva News AgencyStafeyev
was fined for staging a one-man picket after the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, where several of his cousins lived, was hit by a Russian
project was launched.Other Russian groups using crowdfunding to pay fines for protests include Nobel Prize-winning Memorial as well as
told The Moscow Times.Kallas, who was given two fines totaling 60,000 rubles ($982) for putting an anti-war bumper sticker on his car, said
anti-war rallies with the police opening 4,777 administrative cases and over 300 criminal cases, according to data collected by
organizations avoid collecting contributions in one bank account
helping protesters, organizers hope that crowdfunding initiatives like ROSshtraf and Zaodno will help focus public attention on the
individuals who are risking jail time to speak out against the war.However, those on the receiving end of assistance are often simply
