The prosecutor's office of Udmurtia sent a complaint to the head of VKontakte for xenophobic groups on the network

On February 13, 2013, the prosecutor's office of the Ustinovsky district of Izhevsk announced that it had sent submission to the head of VKontakte LLC Pavel Durov with a demand to take specific measures to eliminate violations of the law on countering extremism.

In the course of a prosecutor's inspection of registered social network user communities in Izhevsk, the prosecutor's office found groups " containing signs of inciting ethnic hatred, racism and extremism ." The check was carried out by entering keywords into the VKontakte search engine.

In one of the communities there is a description of " a meeting held by the coordinators of the group on the territory of Izhevsk in support of ethnic groups in Moscow ." Another community contains visual " extremist materials ". In some groups there are " calls for inciting ethnic hatred, manifestations of extremism, chauvinism, anti-Semitism, intolerance towards African Americans, Hispanics and other racial groups, the priority and predominance of one nation over another ."

Submissions are under the control of the district prosecutor's office.

Sources

• The prosecutor's office revealed violations of the law on countering extremism in the social network // Official website of the Prosecutor's Office of Udmurtia. February 13, 2013