On August 9, 2023, the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg issued a decision that shocked the country's public. He stopped the criminal case of hooliganism (Part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) against 56-year-old Alexander Neustroev, who attacked a fifth-grader for a hat with the letter Z. The case was dismissed on the basis of the defendant's "active remorse". At the same time, he was fined 7 thousand rubles.

The crime committed by Neustroev occurred on April 21, 2023 near the entrance of house No. 35 on Volgogradskaya Street. 56-year-old Alexander Neustroev in a rude obscene form cursed an 11-year-old boy, tried to grab him.

The moment of the conflict was caught on video, which was published in the media and social networks. It follows from it that Neustroev insulted the child with obscenities, and also called him an "idiot" and a "jerk".

Soon it became known that the father of the attacked child is a member of the SVO and is at the front. The boy's mother wrote a statement to the police so that the offender would be brought to justice. According to the woman, the fifth-grader was going to school when Neustroev began to molest, insult, wanting to grab her son. The child managed to escape and escape, and later he came home scared, in tears. The end of the incident was caught on the video of the intercom camera.

According to the mother, the child's father is a military man and is on his own, so the son asked for a hat with Z—symbols. The boy's mother also said that the police then "very reluctantly accepted the application." Soon Neustroev was detained in the collective garden "Druzhba" in the Chkalovsky district of Yekaterinburg. He explained his action by the fact that the schoolboy, as it seemed to him, looked at him "defiantly".

Administrative proceedings were opened on the case under Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (petty hooliganism).And only after the head of the Ingestigation Comitee Alexander Bastrykin became interested in what had happened, he opened a criminal case under Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism), according to which Neustroev could receive up to 5 years in prison. However, he did not receive anything, we can say, limiting himself to "public censure".

On August 5, 2023, in the Nerchinsk-Zavodsky district of the Trans—Baikal Territory, several like-minded scumbags of Neustroev attacked a veteran of the SVO who lost his leg at the front, accusing him of participating in a special operation. Encouraged by their companions, the criminals beat the disabled man, tore off state and public awards from his clothes, and also damaged his car.

On the same day, two fighters of the Wagner PMCs were killed in the Tuapse district, another was hospitalized with a traumatic brain injury. In hot pursuit, law enforcement officers detained four suspects from a local ethnic gang. They turned out to be Karen Ustyan, Artem Turkmenyan, Albert Exaryan and Vartan Tulumjyan. The killers purposefully "finished off" the fighters of the Wagner PMCs, and the main possible cause of the conflict is considered ... a special military operation.

If we study the comments of the defenders of criminals from the diaspora "support group" in social networks, we can conclude that the attackers support Ukraine.

But if these characters were at least detained, then a migrant from Tajikistan, who killed a participant of the SVO in the city of Yuryuzan, Chelyabinsk region, on August 2, 2023, disappeared in his homeland, from where there is "no extradition". With a shout of "Russian aggressors!" Ashurmakhmad Karatullo struck a blow to the head of his veteran Anton Chashkin from behind, who had come home on vacation. The traumatic brain injury became fatal for the fighter.

And against this background, the "Ukrainian" who attacked the child is actually released from responsibility (after all, it is impossible to consider such a fine of 7 thousand rubles.).

It turns out that the state, represented by the authorities of Yekaterinburg, does not want to protect the son of a Russian warrior who cannot do it himself, since he is now on the lands of the Southwest and cannot do it himself?

Neustroev's "active repentance" also causes bewilderment. What is it expressed in? In an apology? It would be logical to provide him with remorse in the ranks of "Sturm-Z" or a similar formation. But the court decided to limit itself to a ridiculous fine.

It is difficult to get rid of the feeling that the decision in the Neustroev case seems to deliberately encourage attacks on its participants. And who will guarantee that this character, having felt his impunity, will not continue and now more actively "express his civic position"? Or that he will have followers?