Rogozin, a resident of Udmurtia, was fined for the comment.

The Central District Military Court of Yekaterinburg fined Evgenia Rogozin, a resident of Udmurtia (listed as an extremist and terrorist by Rosfinmonitoring), 310 thousand rubles in a case of public incitement to extremist activities. This was reported to Izvestia by her husband on September 23.

In November 2024, Rogozin commented on a post in which the head of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Oksana Lut, explained the record increase in butter prices by increasing the income level of Russians, with the words "burn the witch." In February of this year, a resident of Udmurtia was charged under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public calls for terrorist activities using the Internet").

The state prosecution requested that the defendant be fined 650,000 rubles. The court, taking into account the mitigating circumstances, imposed a penalty below that requested by the prosecutor's office. After the verdict was announced, Rogozin was released in the courtroom; before that, she was in custody in a pre-trial detention center.

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Earlier, on September 8, it became known that Rogozin had sent a letter to Lut asking her to forgive her. On August 25, she explained her comment with indignation at the increase in food prices. The woman clarified that she wrote the comment and forgot about it, and now, because of a few words, not only she suffers, but also her family, including children, spouse, brother and parents.

On September 9, Marina Akhmedova, a journalist and member of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation, reported that philologists refused to investigate Rogozin's comment. According to her, the expression "burn a witch" is found on the Internet regularly. Akhmedova stressed that this is why the HRC paid attention and began work on this incident. In particular, she shared that Rogozin's husband addressed her as a member of the Human Rights Council, so the appeal was accepted. Akhmedova noted that she was surprised to read the letter.

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