A new criminal case against Igor Kolodezenko is being completed

In May 2004, Igor Kolodezenko, former editor-in-chief of the Russkaya Sibir newspaper, was charged with another charge under article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

In 2003, by a court decision, the newspaper Russkaya Sibir was closed for nationalist publications. In the same year, I. Kolodezenko was sentenced by the court of the Central District of Novosibirsk to 3 years for inciting ethnic hatred and immediately amnestied in connection with the anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War.

However, neither the verdict nor the closure of the newspaper had any effect on the activity of I. Kolodezenko, the coordinator of the regional branch of the National Power Party of Russia, which was deprived of registration - he continued to publish his materials, which were clearly nationalistic in nature, in other publications, as well as in his own newspaper, which now called "Native Siberia".

On June 28, 2004, the trial began, during which the accused brought and distributed to each of its participants, including the judge, the next issue of his newspaper.

On November 23, 2004, at a meeting of the Central District Court of Novosibirsk, a representative of the prosecutor's office, Yuri Lushchenkov, stated that he considered the defendant's guilt of inciting ethnic hatred proven. The public prosecutor demanded that Igor Kolodezenko, editor of the Novosibirsk newspaper Russkaya Sibir, be sentenced to three years' imprisonment in a penal colony.

Sources

• Editor-in-chief of Siberian newspaper accused of inciting ethnic hatred // Polit.Ru. 2004. May 31.
• The former editor of the newspaper "Russian Siberia" is on trial for anti-Semitism // Anti-Semitism. No. 2004. June 28.
• Editor of the Novosibirsk newspaper Russkaya Sibir sentenced to three years for anti-Semitic publications // Religion and Mass Media. November 23, 2004