{"id":27393,"date":"2026-08-17T13:13:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T10:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/?p=27393"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T10:13:31","slug":"kostrytskyi-foto-moskva-srsr-symvolika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/suspilstvo\/kostrytskyi-foto-moskva-srsr-symvolika\/","title":{"rendered":"A photo featuring Soviet symbols was found on social media belonging to a judge in Odessa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"news-lead\">Journalists discovered an archive on Vitaliy Kostrytskyi\u2019s social media pages containing photos of him wearing a T-shirt bearing Soviet symbols, pictures from trips to Moscow, and references to a certificate of merit and an organisation supporting the army. In the documents, Kostrytskyi is listed as a judge at the Luhansk Court of Appeal, seconded to the Odesa Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-summary-box\">\n<p><strong>Briefly about the main points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A photo featuring Soviet symbols was found on Kostrytskyi\u2019s social media pages.<\/li>\n<li>Among the photos is one taken on Red Square with his family.<\/li>\n<li>The certificate of the \u00abAll-Union Order of Lenin\u00bb is also mentioned.<\/li>\n<li>The Luhansk Court of Appeal is specified as the judge\u2019s primary place of work.<\/li>\n<li>The High Council of Justice may assess a judge\u2019s conduct in disciplinary proceedings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Photographs from Moscow, Soviet symbols and references to the certificate<\/h2>\n<p>The materials found include photographs <strong>Vitaliy Kostrytskyi<\/strong> wearing a T-shirt featuring Soviet symbols. Journalists also drew attention to photographs from trips to Moscow, in particular from Red Square, where the judge is pictured with his family.<\/p>\n<p>The archive of pages mentions a certificate from the \u00abAll-Union Order of Lenin\u00bb and membership of the Society for the Support of the Army.<\/p>\n<h2>The status of a seconded judge and the procedure for disciplinary assessment<\/h2>\n<p>In his annual declaration for 2025, submitted on 19 March 2026, Kostrytskyi stated that he held the post of judge at the Odesa Court of Appeal and performed public functions. At the same time, the High Council of Justice\u2019s list, as at 1 July, lists the Luhansk Court of Appeal as his home court; in the High Council of Prosecutors\u2019 documents, he is listed as seconded to Odesa.<\/p>\n<p>The law provides for a disciplinary assessment of a judge\u2019s conduct following a complaint, an investigation and a decision by the High Council of Justice. Old photographs, trips or posts do not automatically imply liability: what matters is their content, timing and context.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos from Moscow and Red Square, symbols of the USSR and a reference to a certificate were found on Judge Vitaliy Kostrytskyi\u2019s social media pages.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":207433355,"featured_media":27392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_description":"\u041d\u0430 \u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0456\u043d\u043a\u0430\u0445 \u0441\u0443\u0434\u0434\u0456 \u0412\u0456\u0442\u0430\u043b\u0456\u044f \u041a\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0446\u044c\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0432\u0438\u044f\u0432\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u0444\u043e\u0442\u043e \u0437 \u041c\u043e\u0441\u043a\u0432\u0438 \u0439 \u0427\u0435\u0440\u0432\u043e\u043d\u043e\u0457 \u043f\u043b\u043e\u0449\u0456, \u0441\u0438\u043c\u0432\u043e\u043b\u0456\u043a\u0443 \u0421\u0420\u0421\u0420 \u0442\u0430 \u0437\u0433\u0430\u0434\u043a\u0443 \u043f\u0440\u043e \u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043e\u0442\u0443.","rank_math_title":"\u0412\u0456\u0442\u0430\u043b\u0456\u0439 \u041a\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0456 \u0444\u043e\u0442\u043e \u0437 \u041c\u043e\u0441\u043a\u0432\u0438: \u0440\u0430\u0434\u044f\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0430 \u0441\u0438\u043c\u0432\u043e\u043b\u0456\u043a\u0430","rank_math_focus_keyword":"\u041a\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439","td_subtitle":"","subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[806778],"tags":[806775],"class_list":["post-27393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-suspilstvo","tag-806775"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207433355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27394,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27393\/revisions\/27394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}