A resident of Surgut has been fined over a joke suggestion to Trump to “take the Ural Federal District.”

The Surgut City Court has fined a local resident 90,000 rubles (approx. US$950) under the article on incitement to violate the territorial integrity of Russia (Part 2, Article 20.3.2 of the Administrative Code). The press service of the regional courts reported this.

The protocol was issued over a comment the man left under a Telegram post about the US president’s attempts to buy Greenland from Denmark: 'Trump, you’d better take the Ural Federal District, we’ll even pay you extra! :)'