The court closed the General Line

On July 4, 2005, by the decision of the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow on the suit of the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rosokhrakultura), the NBP newspaper Generalnaya Liniya was deregistered. On July 11, 2005, this was stated by the head of the service, Boris Boyarskov, during an Internet conference at the Garant company: "This is the first time I am reporting this. We should soon receive a decision from the court itself ," he said.

The court made the decision after the paper received three warnings in 2004 over a period of four months.

According to the head of the service, the warnings received by the newspaper are the result of a deliberate shocking of the publication: "I think that they may even benefit more from the fact that we remove them from registration," B. Boyarskov commented on this decision of the court.

In July, when this information was first made public, the details of the case (including the court in which the case was heard and whether the National Bolsheviks would challenge the court decision) were not reported. The National Bolsheviks, in turn, argued that they had not received a copy of the statement of claim from Rosokhrankultura, or summons to court, or a court decision.

On October 27, 2005, Rosokhrankultura confirmed information that the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow had issued a decision to terminate the activities of the Generalnaya Liniya newspaper for "using the media to carry out extremist activities" and that the paper's registration certificate had been annulled.

Sources

• Internet conference of the Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and Protection of Cultural Heritage Boris Antonovich Boyarskov // Guarantee. 2005. July 18.
• Rosokhrankultura summed up the results of work in 2005 with the media // IA REGNUM. 2005. October 27.