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Настоящий материал (информация) произведен и (или) распространен иностранным агентом Исследовательский центр «Сова» либо касается деятельности иностранного агента Исследовательский центр «Сова».
Misuse of anti-extremist legislation for the first month of autumn
2011 remained within the bounds of our biannual report for this year,
published in Russian on September 22 and forthcoming in English.
This month, anti-extremism legislation was misused primarily in
recognition of materials (mostly texts) as extremist. We also note a
new bill introduced by the government to the Duma; it clarifies and
extends some of the state’s methods of countering extremism.
In July
we recorded one dubious criminal charge, and several questionable
administrative decisions. In some cases, courts rejected improper
accusations of extremism, but more often such accusations were
approved. Also, of particular note is the involvement of the Federal
Migration Service in prosecuting charges of extremism against a
trade union activist.
A remarkable event this month was the June 28 Resolution of the
plenary meeting of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation N11
"On judicial practice in criminal cases involving crimes of an
extremist nature." However, the usual trends remain rather negative.
This month we saw one significantly positive development: a
serious clearing-out of the Federal List of Extremist Materials,
which has long been plagued with multiple and outdated entries.
Otherwise, we saw all the same trends reported in previous updates.
In April 2011, we registered the misuse of
anti-extremism legislation in all our major areas of coverage:
criminal and administrative proceedings, publications deemed
extremist, and warnings issued to media sources.
On April 14, 2011, the Gorno-Altaisk City
Court acquitted Aleksandr Kalistratov of charges under Part 1 of Article 282 of
the Criminal Code, incitement to religious hatred. He was fully absolved of any
wrongdoing.
In March 2011, all the same trends
continued in the misuse and abuse of anti-extremist legislation, with at least
two improper criminal, and one administrative, convictions. There were also
wrongful decisions to ban a book and several films.
On 14 March, 2011, a Magistrate’s Court in the Tyumen Central
Administrative District sentenced activist Andrei Kutuzov to two
years of a suspended sentence with three years’ probation. Kutuzov
was accused of distributing leaflets calling for violence against
the police at a rally in October 2009, which would constitute a
violation of Article 280, Part 1 of the Criminal Code: public
appeals for extremist activity.
