Andrei was found guilty in July 2021 of "insulting a government official" for a comment he left on the social network Odnoklassniki under a post about police captain Sergei Shramov and about a district police inspector, police captain Alexander Shlupakov.
The Odnoklassniki post was dedicated to how police officers confiscated red-and-white balloons hanging in a local resident's home during a search in the city of Dubrovno, after which he was sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest.
