Military Court

State Duma deputy from the LDPR Andrei Lugovoi threatened the chief editor of the newspaper Moscow Komsomolets Pavel Gusev. Gusev himself reported this on the air of the Echo of Moscow. He is going to file an application with the Prosecutor General. Gusev is sure that Lugovoi not only threatens him, but also counteracts the professional activity of the journalist.

“Lugovoi here recently at one of the radio stations advocated that I didn’t get there an officer who would fill my face at once. You see, when the deputies on the open air advocate to be filled with the muzzle, you begin to understand ... this is really a threat,” Gusev told Wednesday in the evening in the program “Special opinion”.

Gusev noted that MK does not take a defensive or offensive position. “We simply fulfilled our journalistic duty. We wrote what we want to write, because the journalist has the right in our country today under the 29th article of the Constitution to freedom of speech,” the chief editor said. He emphasized that such issues should be resolved exclusively in court, "as in any normal civilized country, democratic."

On Tuesday, the State Duma adopted a statement in which Guseva called on public apologies for the publication "Political prostitution changed the floor", which told about the members of the United Russia faction Irina Yarova, Ekaterina Lakhova and Olga Balalina. The statement was supported by the deputies of the YP factions, with the exception of the secretary of the Union of Journalists of Russia Boris Reznik, the LDPR and ten Socialist -Revolutionaries.

The statement states that in such articles, journalists abuse the right to freedom of speech guaranteed by him by the Constitution. According to deputies, the article insults not only female parliamentarians, but also voters who voted for them. In this regard, the State Duma claims the inadmissibility of such phenomena in the activities of the media. The deputies demanded from Gusev a public apology "to society and those whom he insulted." In addition, the statement says that the editor who admits the release of such articles cannot head the Union of Moscow Journalists and the Commission of the Public Chamber of the Media.

In the Public Chamber and the Union of Journalists of Moscow, Gusev supported. “If the deputies believe that they were offended, let them go to court,” said Dmitry Biryukov, deputy chairman of the OP commission to support the media. The decision to resign Gusev is not in the competence of deputies, noted in both structures.

“The president knows about this situation. At the same time, he does not interfere in it,” said Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday.

Previously, Gusev announced his intention to contact the prosecutor’s office in connection with threats by the deputy secretary of the Secretary of the United Russia General Council, deputy Andrei Isaev. “You need to immediately contact the Prosecutor General’s Office, because the dangerous Isaev can do troubles, not understanding what he was doing, and with regard to journalists,” Gusev said. “I say this as the chairman of the Moscow journalists and as the chairman of the Commission in the Public Chamber to protect freedom of speech.”

“I believe that Isaev’s statements are the agony of the leadership of the United Russia party and the hysteria of the party,” Gusev said. He emphasized that in the article "Political prostitution changed the floor", there are no insulting statements and not a single rude word. There, "only facts are given about the political past activities of the ranks of the members of" United Russia ", Gusev said.

After the publication of the article on Twitter, Isaev threatened reporters. “In the yellow newspaper, a vile, vile, dirty collision with three female deputies. The bastards who did it should know: we’ll definitely not forget it, we won’t forgive!” He wrote . “Small creatures - relax, you are indifferent to us. But the specific editor and the author will answer hard.”