Enemies of the "Coming" or problems of interpretation

On October 12, 2005, activists of the Walking Together movement held a picket near the editorial office of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, protesting against the incitement of ethnic hatred allegedly carried out by the newspaper.

The reason for the picket was an article by Sergei Varshavchik "For Valiant Labor Behind Enemy Lines", dedicated to the awarding of several activists of the "Walking Together" movement.

S. Varshavchik drew attention to the fact that although the Marching activists present this as an award for humanitarian work in Chechnya, the reality is somewhat different. In particular, a number of those who were awarded have long been Nashi functionaries, and thanks were given to them for their active work in preparing the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Victory - that is, for the famous demonstration of "Nashists" on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow.

In addition, he drew attention to the fact that one of the award recipients, Maria Kislitsina, is not an activist of the humanitarian mission, but the main participant in the anti-Natsbol incident in Kaluga, as a result of which one of the Kaluga policemen was removed from his post.

Those. the heading "For valiant work behind enemy lines" suggests that these people were awarded not for the Chechen humanitarian mission at all, but for opposing the "anti-Putin forces", whom Yakemenkov's activists really consider enemies .

Meanwhile, the "Going" (or "Nashists"?) present the matter differently. Considering that under the "enemy" S. Varshavchik means the Chechens. One of the recipients, S. Tarakanov, said: “Sergey Varshavchik made it clear that the “enemy rear” is the Chechen Republic, and, accordingly, Chechnya and the Chechen people are enemies. Outraged by this wording, 20 people came from the republic in order to find out who is the enemy for this person, and explain to him that they do not consider themselves enemies of their own country. They lived and will live in Russia!"

At the same time, the picketers announced their intention to sue the author of the article for inciting ethnic hatred.

Sources

• "Walking Together" opposed the incitement of ethnic hatred in the press // Yoki.ru. 2005. October 12.