The Russian TV personality and blogger who organized a controversial celebrity nearly naked party in December has beenfined$542 for discrediting the Russian military.Moscows Tverskoy District Court found Anastasia Ivleeva guilty of public actions aimed at discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and issued a 50,000-ruble fine, according to the Moscow court systems Telegram channel.A repeat offense within one year is punishable by imprisonment for up to seven years.The independent news outlet Mediazonareported that authorities had filed a report against Ivleeva in March 2023.
According to the news outlet Rusnews, the criminal casecenters around Ivleevas March 1, 2022, Instagram post in which shecalled for Russian-Ukrainian talks to end the military conflict.Ivleevas defense argued that the statute of limitations had expired andsaid it planned to appeal the verdict.Ivleeva, who denies the charges, did not attend the court hearing.Russian courts have fined and jailed several activists under the wartime censorship laws of discrediting the army and spreading fake news about it in the more than two years since Russia invaded Ukraine.Ivleeva was hit with two separate billion-ruble lawsuits for causing moral suffering by organizing the star-studded nearly naked party on Dec.
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She and other celebrities apologized and were pressed to perform pro-war acts following the private event.In March, Ivleeva announced that she planned to vote for President Vladimir Putin's re-election that month.
Sheis not known to have previously weighed in on political issuesapart from voicing sympathy for jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in the past.