The Privokzalny District Court of Tula fined a local resident 40,000 rubles under an administrative charge of promoting extremist symbols. The regional broadcaster Pervy Tulsky reported this, citing the press service of the region’s courts.
According to that report, the case was based on a photo of a tattoo published on social media. The outlet said the woman is 40 years old and works as a tattoo artist.
On her page, she had posted an image of completed work featuring an inverted pentagram. The officials who drew up the protocol considered the image a “symbol of Satan and Satanism.”
In July 2025, Russia’s Supreme Court recognized the “international Satanism movement” as an extremist organization.
Mediazona said it found the court record for the administrative case on the court’s website. According to the published information, the hearing took place on June 17.
The report also recalls a similar case heard in late May by the Verkh-Isetsky District Court in Yekaterinburg. In that case, a tattoo artist was jailed for 10 days under the same article of the administrative code over two photographs published on her Telegram channel.
According to the case materials, one image showed a woman “with a bat tattoo and wearing underwear bearing an image of Baphomet.” The other showed “a woman with a choker on her neck featuring an inverted five-pointed star.”