The decision of the Chita court to recognize the materials of the newspaper "Russian Transbaikalia" as extremist has come into force.

. On September 2, 2008, the decision of the Central District Court of Chita dated July 10, 2008 on recognizing the materials of the newspaper Russkoe Zabaikalye as extremist (No. 2 of February 22, 2008) and withdrawing this circulation from circulation came into legal force

The materials published in the newspaper "will be included by the Ministry of Justice of Russia in the list of extremist materials and banned for distribution in the media on the territory of the Russian Federation."

Recall that the newspaper "Russian Transbaikalia" has been periodically published by the Chita regional department of the Union of the Russian People since August 2006. The circulation of the newspaper is 2000 copies. A total of 21 issues were published, 4 of them - in 2008. The basis for the start of the trial was the claim of the first deputy prosecutor of the Trans-Baikal Territory Valery Makarov.

Specialists of the Trans-Baikal State Humanitarian Pedagogical University conducted a psychological and linguo-stylistic study of this issue of the newspaper. According to the conclusion of experts, "in the materials" Down with the lies of democracy! Appeal of the Union of the Russian People to the Russian people in the Fatherland and the diaspora”, “The regime is becoming more and more criminal”, “Afterword by the editors”, “While we are Russians”, “Compatriots! Join the Russian Patriotic Movement" contains vocabulary that offends the honor and dignity of persons by nationality or religion, justifies or justifies the superiority of one nationality over another" . In addition, these articles "contain statements calling for a change in Russia's constitutional order . "

The specialists of the Office of the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage in the Chita Region and Aginsky Buryat Autonomous Okrug came to the same conclusions.

Let us also remind that in April and May 2008 the prosecutor's office issued warnings for the materials of the newspaper "Russian Transbaikalia" (No. 2 of February 22, 2008). The very first warning to the newspaper was issued by the East-Siberian Department of Rosokhrankultura on October 19, 2006. And on April 18, 2007, the Central District Court of Chita recognized the materials of the newspaper as extremist . On July 23, 2008, a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity, committed with the use of the media) against the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, chairman of the council of the Chita regional department of the RNC, Alexander Yaremenko.

Sources

• In the Trans-Baikal Territory, materials published in the newspaper "Russian Transbaikalia" were recognized as extremist // Official website of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. 2008. September 2.