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Siberian court fines man for online insults

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CHITA, July 13 (RIA Novosti) - A court in Chita, East Siberia, has fined a man for publishing intimate information on a woman he met online, and using obscenities to publicly insult her, the complainant told RIA Novosti.

The woman, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said she met 22-year-old Sergei Glukhikh on the Web, and not long after they started communicating, he posted her address, phone number, and personal information on an Internet forum.

On June 25, the court ordered the defendant to pay a 30,000 rubles (around $1,200) fine, she said.

The woman had appealed to a special department handling high-tech crime in Chita. However, said she had taken pity on the man's family, and hadn't pressed for moral damages.

"I decided not to file a moral damage suit, as the offender is still unemployed and I don't want to drain his parents' purse," she said.

Individuals in Russia have been charged with unacceptable online behavior in the past, but the cases have usually had political overtones.

A citizen of Novosibirsk in West Siberia was accused in May of sparkling 'ethnic discord' on the Internet. Prosecutors pushed for a 150,000-ruble ($5,900) fine; a sentence will be passed later this month.

In November last year, Moscow prosecutors filed a suit against Ivan Zaitsev from the nearby Vladimir Region, who published insults against President Vladimir Putin. After psychologists found the defendant to be insane, prosecutors asked the court to put him under compulsory medical treatment.

In December 2004 Andrei Skovorodnikov, who heads the National Bolshevik Party office in Siberia's Krasnoyarsk, was found guilty of insulting the president online and sentenced to correctional labor. His computer was destroyed.

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