This is reported by RIA Novosti.

“The air security dispatcher informed the police that, when boarding, one of the passengers ... refused the request of the flight attendants to wear a medical mask,” the message says.

It is specified that the aircraft commander decided to remove the passenger from the flight.

Subsequently, an administrative protocol was drawn up against the violator for petty hooliganism and failure to comply with the rules of conduct during the introduction of the high alert regime.

Earlier, a lawyer for civil, arbitration and administrative cases, Vasily Vorobyov, told in an interview with RT what punishment the ballerina Anastasia Volochkova could face for a conflict on board an aircraft at Sheremetyevo Airport due to her unwillingness to wear a mask.

TASS reported that Volochkova could be arrested for 15 days and fined 30,000 rubles for a conflict on board a plane at Sheremetyevo Airport because of her unwillingness to wear a mask.