pastry chef fined for decorating her cakes with messages against the war in Ukraine

They were not to the taste of the Russian army. A Moscow court fined on Friday, April 28, a young pastry chef hostile to the Kremlin who had concocted cakes decorated with messages criticizing the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Anastasia Chernysheva was found guilty of having “discredited” the armed forces and ordered to pay 35,000 rubles (about 400 euros at the current rate), said a spokeswoman for the Izmailovsky court in Moscow.

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The day before, the young woman had been briefly arrested at her home by the police, then taken to the police station to draw up a report. According to the opposition media Sota-Vision, present at the hearing on Friday, Anastassia Chernycheva was reported to the authorities after the publication, in January, of a critical article pointing out her cakes published by the pro-Kremlin media Tsargrad.

“No to war”

On her Instagram account, followed by more than 23,000 people, Anastassia Tchernycheva has published since the spring of 2022 many photos of her achievements with political messages. In March, she posted a photo of a white cake topped with multicolored letters making up the message in Russian “No to war”.

Last year, she also shared an image of a phallic-shaped cake decorated with a popular anti-war slogan using a vulgar Russian word for the male gender. “Everything will be fine for you but not for Putin”, further specified a message on one of his cakes shared last May. She has also, on several occasions, made cakes in the colors of the Ukrainian flag.