In Dagestan, women were fined 2 million rubles for brewing coffee near the Eternal Flame

Dagestan residents Yuliana Aliyeva and Maryam Chunkova were found guilty by the republic's Supreme Court of publicly desecrating the memory of defenders of the Fatherland.

The incident occurred in Makhachkala in 2023, when they were brewing coffee over the Eternal Flame, located in the Central Park near the Liberator Soldier Monument. They were initially sentenced to one year of probation. The sentence was subsequently commuted to a fine of 2 million rubles each.

"The women, in the presence of passersby, began brewing coffee in two cezves over the Eternal Flame in front of the Liberator Soldier Monument, dedicated to the fight against fascism, in the Lenin Komsomol Central Park of Culture and Recreation in Makhachkala," the prosecutor's office stated.

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