Dmitry Shipilov

On 16 and 24 November 2011, he published two texts under his LiveJournal account dedicated to the regional governor Aman Tuleyev and the head of the regional department of culture and national policy Larisa Zauerwein. The texts contained profane language and were strongly negative towards the mentioned officials. One of the texts referred to real events, while the other involved a fictional scenario and was written in the form of a satirical screenplay. Tuleyev and Zauerwein filed statements requesting initiating a case against Shipilov for insulting representatives of the authorities. On 9 April 2012, he was sentenced to 11 months of corrective labour with 10% of his earnings withheld to the state. On 10 September 2014, Shipilov was detained in the Moscow region, at the railway station "Chkalovskaya" of the Yaroslavl direction, after which he was transferred to the Kemerovo region. It was revealed that in May 2012, his sentence was replaced with three months of imprisonment in a settlement colony. He was detained because he left for the Moscow region without serving his sentence. Shipilov had been wanted since 2012. In November 2014, it became known that a case had been opened against Shipilov because of two articles on the Novy Kuzbass website, which were found to be insulting to Tuleyev. In December, Dmitry Shipilov was released from the pre-trial detention centre and, without waiting for the development of the second criminal case, left Russia. He received political asylum from the Ukrainian authorities.