As his lawyer Sergei Zhorin clarified to TASS, the musician insists on his innocence.
“We consider the decision of the Naberezhnye Chelny City Court illegal, since the image of a plant as a tattoo in itself cannot be propaganda of drugs, because it does not contain information about the methods, methods for the development, manufacture and use of drugs, as required by law.
There are also no appeals,” the lawyer said.
On May 20, a court in Tatarstan fined Morgenstern 100,000 rubles for drug propaganda.
*Individual recognized as a foreign agent by decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation dated May 6, 2022.