Boris Stomakhin arrested in Moscow

On November 21, 2012, the publisher of the online newspaper Radical Politics, 38-year-old Boris Stomakhin, was arrested in Moscow. He was charged under Part 1 of Art. 205.2 (public calls for terrorist activities) and Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity).

“ Since August 2011, texts containing calls for violent actions against persons of another nation, expressions inciting violent actions against a group of Russian citizens, as well as texts of a terrorist nature have been posted on the Internet ,” the press release says RF IC. Unfortunately, it is not clear which texts caused the claims of the RF Investigative Committee employees, but we note that already in 2011, under the name of Stomakhin, texts were published that substantiated in detail not only the possibility, but also the necessity of terror against the “Russians”, understood as both ethnic and as a civil category. The case looks quite legitimate, but a mitigating circumstance can be considered the negligible audience of his newsletter.

Let us recall that in 2006 B. Stomakhin was convicted under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred) and Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for extremist activities) for publishing the newsletter “Radical Politics”. He was released in March 2011.

In May 2012, the Leninsky District Court of the city of Stavropol recognized Boris Stomakhin’s article “You will be free, Caucasus!” as extremist. In March 2012, the Leninsky District Court of Orsk, Orenburg Region, recognized Stomakhin’s article published on the Resistance website as extremist (item 1190 of the Federal List of Extremist Materials). In July and August 2012, the Inta City Court of the Komi Republic declared an article from Stomakhin’s “Resistance” website and the entire site extremist (among other things, the site published issues of his newspaper “Radical Politics”) (item 1474, item 1521 of the list). Roskomnadzor issued a warning to the editors of the publication "Century" for distributing on the Internet at the address of the material "Russia is being hindered by Russians... Selected statements of our liberals", which reproduces verbatim fragments of Stomakhin's article "Death of Russia!", recognized by the court as extremist material (we consider this warning illegal ).

Sources

• A 38-year-old man accused of committing extremist crimes was arrested in Moscow // Official website of the RF IC. 2012. November 24.
• The publisher of the newspaper “Radical Politics” Boris Stomakhin was arrested on charges of inciting hatred // Gazeta.ru. 2012. November 24.