A history teacher in Russia said he didn't believe it was "for real" when Russian authorities punished him for liking a video denouncing the war in Ukraine.
Alexey Argunov, 49, reacted to a Facebook post with a 'cool' emoji. The video was showing Arnold Schwarzenegger begging Vladimir Putin to "stop this war". Argunov also reacted with a sad emoji to another person's post about the war.
Told he was "unlucky" by the officer investigating, Alexey said: "I didn’t believe this was for real at first.
"I thought the case - created after the FSB [security service] initiated an investigation - was so obviously not serious, much too light, that it would be closed within minutes."
For "discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation", he was ordered to pay around £435 by a Siberian court.
Putin's Russian troops have been engaged in a war with Ukraine since February when he invaded the Ukrainian homeland. The invasion set off months of fierce fighting, the displacement of millions of people from their homes and the deaths of thousands as Putin's bombs rained down indiscriminately on cities.
Russia describes the war as a 'special operation' to people in its homeland, in fighting they falsely claim is to rid Ukraine of Nazi leadership.
Since the war broke out, Putin has made moves to clamp down on dissent and free speech calling out the fighting.
People can face sentences of up to 15 years for spreading "false news" about the Russian military.
Such is the stranglehold on controlled information by the Kremlin, that Argunov says he can't talk to his own mother about it because she believes information released by Russian state TV.
Argunov, who also teaches philosophy at a medical college, said he was "deeply shocked" about the war and felt physically sick for several weeks.
"I don’t discuss the topic of war with my mother at all," he said, explaining that she bases her views on state television propagandists backing Putin.
He added: "Her position is the opposite of mine. She watches TV. Of course, it's hard when your loved one is zombified. Very disappointing. And it doesn't just happen to older people."
Even before the war began, the country under Putin's thumb was becoming increasingly hostile to protesters and those who wished to speak out against the regime.
Russia's law on "foreign agents" is a broad term that has been applied to people simply for having the opposite view to the Kremlin on a particular matter. Several Russian media outlets have been shut down for their reporting on the goings-on of the Russian state.
