A criminal case has been opened against the Samara blogger for an entry in LiveJournal concerning Vladimir Putin

The next blogger was suspected of extremist activity. This time, the case was initiated against the 30-year-old user of the Living Journal Dmitry Kirilin from Samara. Experts have already started talking about a dangerous trend and do not soon exclude the appearance of the Internet on the Internet, which will limit freedom of speech on the network.

The prosecutor's office of the Samara region recognized the initiation of a criminal case against a resident of the regional center Dmitry Kirilin. He was charged under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (calls for extremist activity). According to the investigation, back in 2006, a blogger under the nickname of New-M0ray in his Internet Devil called visitors to the overthrow of the existing political system, and also disrespectfully expressed the current power structures. "

The supervisory department said that the charges against Kirilin were built on several records in his LiveJournal regarding Vladimir Putin. If Kirilin’s fault is proved, he can face up to three years in prison.

In particular, in his blog, Kirilin described the measures necessary in his opinion so that "we do not slide down to totalitarianism and fascism, but there was no abaluation." Having listed some of these measures and re -reducing the surname of the president, Kirilin concluded his “manifesto”: “All these reforms can only be carried out by throwing the government. It itself will not leave. And I will try to contribute to this as I can.”

According to Kommersant (Samara) , the prosecutor’s office does not comment on the nuances of this criminal case, noting that Kirilin is not an activist of "none of the political parties or informal extremist associations."

And the New Izvestia recall that for the first time, law enforcement agencies turned their eyes to bloggers in 2007. Then the user of the Living Journal from the Komi Republic Savva Terentyev was accused of inciting social hatred of police officers . He was condemned for a year conditionally. After that, the police began to very actively initiate cases against bloggers.

So, in March 2009, a member of the Defense Movement Dmitry Solovyov from the Kemerovo region was accused under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (excitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). Law enforcement officers believe that with statements on the network, he incurred users with hatred of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB .

In the same March, another blogger-opposition Vadim Charushev was forcibly placed in a “psychiatric hospital” . The creator of the so-called opposition Internet communities was forcibly hospitalized under unknown circumstances from the police department. In the same place, in a psychiatric clinic, a departure hearing was later held. To this, Carushev announced threats and intimidations in a psychiatric hospital.

In May of this year, a criminal case was instituted against a blogger under the nickname Dead_Moros , who left a recording in the form of a congratulatory postcard in the Sverdlovsk police on behalf of the deputy chief of the Main Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region for Major General Viktor Berdnikov. In this congratulation, the general and his colleagues were exhibited by bribe takers and corrupt officials. Investigators saw in this entry slander at the general.

And on June 20, in Moscow , a 21-year-old Muscovite was detained for the placement of extremist materials on the Internet, which published a certain guide to street terror on its blog. A criminal case is underway against her under an article on the initiation of interethnic hatred.