Moscow’s Rich in Flash Cars Find Wartime Russia No Easy Ride
- Men jailed for up to 15 days over Moscow parade of supercars
- Russia has cracked down domestically amid its war in Ukraine
Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, Russia.
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Like many other people in President Vladimir Putin’s Russia who’ve held events in public, a group of wealthy Russians who paraded expensive supercars around the streets of Moscow quickly fell foul of the law.
Seven men including a former mayor of Archangelsk, Alexander Donskoy, were ordered to serve as many as 15 days in detention for participating in a “mass gathering of citizens in a public place,” state-run Tass reported Monday. Another 19 people face similar hearings soon, according to the news service, citing a spokesperson at Moscow’s Tagansky court.