Flibusters and lawyers

The Ministry of Justice refused to register the Pirate Party of Russia, according to the party’s website. The Ministry of Justice found several violations in documents submitted by activists, but paid special attention to the name of the organization.

The Ministry of Justice notification says that the party cannot be called "pirate", since piracy in Russia is a criminal offense. At the same time, the document provides detailed quotes from the Criminal Code and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which determines the concept of piracy as a sea robbery. “At the same time, piracy is closely related to counterfeiting,” the notification says.

In addition, the document states that "the nomination by the secret vote of the candidate in the presidential election does not correspond to the name of the party." The Ministry of Justice also pointed to a number of formal violations in the submitted documents. Activists reasonedly rejected all the complaints of the department.

Party Chairman Pavel Radudov said that he would challenge the Ministry of Justice’s refusal. “We believe that the General Prosecutor's Office should check the conformity of the name of the Charter of“ United Russia ”, since it does not have a mention of unity, as well as a batch of apple, for which there is not a word about fruits, as well as some other registered parties,” he said.

“The goals and objectives of the Pirate Party have long been understandable and known to the general public. Even the Italian court has long resolved this issue. The very idea that the movement for freedom and civil rights is compared with marine robbery is either an absurd or an malicious incorrect interpretation of events,” the Ministry of Justice of the Pirate Movement, the founder of the pirate movement and the first pirate party of the Sweden. In my opinion, your boccrats have broccoli in socks. "

In November, about 50 people took part in a rally at the monument to Karl Marx on a revolution against censorship on the Internet under the auspices of the Pirate Party. "The rally was disgusting. Despite the fact that the rally was agreed upon by the RKRP, which invited us, the police did not allow us to deploy flags, and allowed them to remove them from the pole and expand them only as posters," said Radudov then.

Earlier, the Moscow authorities refused the Pirate Party to agree on the picket "for Lurcoma, for freedom, they have already left for you!", And the Russian Communist Workers Party, which had already agreed on the rally at that time. Readudov noted that in the spring, when the law on censorship on the Internet was adopted, the pirates had already reached the rally to the Marx monument and warned that innocent sites would be blocked.

Earlier, the Pirate Party of Russia has already made an attempt to register. In March 2011, the Ministry of Justice refused to give her a registration certificate. The word "pirate" in the name was also called as a reason.