At the end of April this year, Stas Netesov came to the police department to write a statement about theft - he was attacked at a bus stop, his phone was stolen and his tooth was knocked out. However, a report was drawn up against him for “discrediting” the RF Armed Forces.

The police did not like the appearance of the young man; they considered his blue and yellow hair colors to be support for Ukraine. In addition, security forces took fingerprints from the young man. They also told Netesov that they would force him to “kiss his native soil in the trenches” and handed him a summons to the military registration and enlistment office.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow fined Netesov 50 thousand rubles in early May.

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[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 127 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What an idiotic country.

[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 65 points 5 months ago (3 children)

A fine of about $550 USD.

[–] maiskanzler@feddit.de 62 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

And basically sentenced for life on top of that.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

*death

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Unless he successfully surrenders.

Not likely, but there's hope.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

Or he gets lost, going by the forest

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Great opportunity to frag some officers once he gets a rifle.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

Although tempting, it probably isn't worth the risk. I highly doubt he's going to be very well trained so I wouldn't risk it if I were him I'd just run away at some point when they're not looking.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 22 points 5 months ago

For reference, a friend of mine who works full time as a teacher in St. Petersburg was making about 350-400€ a month back in 2017. With inflation and the exchange rate falling, she is probably making 200€ now. So $550 is a lot of money, even if you live in a major city.

[–] GTG3000@programming.dev 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's about double the average salary in Russia.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah when you're doing conversions like this it's sort of more useful to convert effective buying power rather than a direct price conversion.

[–] GTG3000@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

It's a bit wishy-washy. Food and housing bills are cheaper (a flat you own is like...$50-100 a month in a city that's not moscow), but anything imported can get really fucking expensive - either you get cheap crap from china, or if you have to get something name-brand it is usually more expensive than it is in europe. Like how Valve Index ($1k MSRP) was like $2-3k in the shops.

So a person outside of moscow can be living on $100 to $250 but not be able to afford any luxuries that could be more afforable outside of russia.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 60 points 5 months ago

This is how Republicans want the US to be.

[–] Drusas@kbin.run 44 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It doesn't even look like his hair is in support of Ukraine. It's got green.

[–] ReputedlyDeplorable@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

The green is for the tractors.

[–] twack@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I feel for the kid and I hope someone gets him out, but let's not pretend like the back of his head isn't the Ukrainian flag though. This kid is either profoundly stupid or was intentionally pushing the boundaries.

I support him if that's what he was doing, but it's not hard to see how this happened.

[–] Drusas@kbin.run 7 points 5 months ago

Hopefully he gets sent to Ukraine and defects.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, now that it's been said, I think his friends should have told him it was too risky. I mean, it's absurd that he's being fined and sent to war because of his hair color, but keep in mind where he is and the current vibe of the nation. Poor guy.

[–] twack@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

If I translated this correctly, he is transgender and the military withdrew the summons after they found out. Still sucks, but that's a lot better than conscription.

https://dennikn.sk/minuta/4003695/

[–] Mikufan@ani.social 28 points 5 months ago

Russia in a nutshell. Onga boonga blue hair evil witch.

[–] boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Considering where they/them are, they are lucky thems ain't dead or in Siberian prison

[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

that's not how you use pronouns, love the spirit though

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Them are trying thems best

[–] LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Chances of survival is higher in a Siberian prison than the Russian army.

[–] boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm apt to agree with you but if your aim is to escape from each I'd say that it's a little easier to desert from the army and sneak over a border somewhere. The weather and pesky jail cells will really slow a jolly good fellow down in Siberia plus from the pics I don't think his mouth/ass would fare well in any prison... Best chance of survival/escape IMHO is the army

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not that the army doesn't also have a rape culture.

[–] boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

U hav gun comrad

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 14 points 5 months ago

I do find it sort of baffling that Russian continue to behave as if they live in a democracy and are constantly stunned to find that they in fact live in a dictatorship.

If you had hair colored like that and all you got was a beating why would you then go to the police and expect any kind of justice?

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A man? The back of that head looks like a 13 year olds.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Well they're running out of convicts and ethnic groups too drain of able bodies to their into the literal meat grinder, so...

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

This is anti Gabon smh

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I mean yeah, it’s shitty that happened to him… but like, it’s Russia, and he’s rocking the UA flag as a haircut. This sort of treatment isn’t surprising.