Moscow: the charge against Boris Stomakhin has been reclassified

In April 2013, it became known that the publisher of the online newspaper “Radical Politics,” 38-year-old Boris Stomakhin, had his charges reclassified.

Let us remember that initially he was accused under Part 1 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public calls for terrorist activities), Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities) and Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity). Now in Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code and Art. 280 of the Criminal Code, instead of clause 1, he is charged with clause 2, i.e. (public calls for terrorist activities committed using the media and public calls for extremist activities committed using the media).

Previously, he was charged with texts published on the website “Resistance” (recognized as extremist in July 2012 and included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials (item 1521)), but the new resolution to charge him also refers to publications on B’s personal blog Stomakhina.

Unfortunately, it is not reported which texts we are talking about.

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 ).

On November 28, 2013, the Central District Court of the city of Omsk recognized the publication of B. Stomakhin’s newspaper “Radical Politics” No. 2 for 2011 as extremist (we consider this ban to be partially unlawful). However, as it became known on April 24, 2013, this decision was overturned , and the case was sent for a new trial on newly discovered grounds.

Sources

• Stomakhin's charges were increased // Grani.ru. 2013. April 25.