A St. Petersburg court on Monday fined the manager of the century-old bookstore Podpisniye Izdaniya 20,000 rubles ($254) for selling a copy of a jailed Belarusian anarchist’s memoir.
The Kuibyshevsky District Court found Yelena Orlova guilty of participating in the activities of an “undesirable” organization, the court’s press service said.
Podpisniye Izdaniya was said to have sold Belarusian anarchist Ihar Alinevich’s 2013 memoir “I’m Off to Magadan,” which Russian authorities claim was published with support from the U.S.-based Anarchist Black Cross Federation.
