On August 31, 2009, in Tyumen, Andrey Kutuzov, one of the suspects in drawing inscriptions on the city's military registration and enlistment offices, received a notice to close the criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (vandalism committed by a group of persons, as well as for reasons of political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred or enmity, or for reasons of hatred or enmity against any social group).

The investigation concluded that "there is no sufficient evidence to justify charging Kutuzov, Fakhretdinov and Slobodchikov, due to the inability to specify the actions of each . "

Nevertheless, according to the experts who conducted the forensic-linguistic (Ural Regional Center for Forensic Examinations of Yekaterinburg) and psychological-linguistic and sociological (Tyumen State University) examinations , "Military registration and enlistment office workers and persons holding high military positions are a social group. Inscriptions, fixed on the buildings of military registration and enlistment offices are offensive in nature. Inciting political and ideological hatred or hostility is nominally present in the content of the inscriptions " .

Recall that we do not consider this case legitimate, since none of the slogans, in our opinion, bears signs of extremism; moreover, in principle, we have a negative attitude to the lack of a clear definition of the concept of "social group" in the law.

Sources

Stopped criminal prosecution against Tyumen anarchists // Open news agency. 2009. August 31.

Case against Tyumen anarchists dropped