The case against a city council deputy regarding xenophobic comments on the Gorny Altai News website has been brought to court

In Gorno-Altaisk, a criminal case has been opened against Vadim Manzyrov, a deputy of the Gorno-Altaisk City Council from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, for comments on the Novosti Gorny Altai website. In August 2014, the case was sent to court.
In August 2014, a criminal case was initiated in Gorno-Altaisk for comments on the Gorny Altai News website.

The audit showed that on January 15, 2014, one of the visitors to the site under the nickname "Natsik" left comments where there were "sharply negative assessments of a group of people united on the basis of belonging to persons of Russian nationality, aimed at inciting hostility towards persons of Russian nationality" "According to media report, the text " talked about the smell, the structure of the skull and mental abilities people of Russian nationality living on the territory of the Republic Altai. The user demanded that the Russians leave the region ."

It has been established that the author of this commentary is Vadim Manzyrov, deputy of the Gorno-Altaisk city council from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. He admitted that he left under various nicknames ("drug", "clerk", "1st secretary of the city committee", "Kazakh", "expert from the election committee", "flock", "kalistrat", "kochkorbai") comments on various Internet materials. “I admit that I spoke rudely and incorrectly about the Russian population," the MP said. he added that he wanted to turn attention to the problems of indigenous people, especially the lack of study and use of the Altai language in state institutions.

On August 5, 2014, the First Deputy Prosecutor of the Republic of Altai filed an application with the city court to recognize the material as extremist.

In March 2014, the Barnaul Linguistic Expert and Consulting Center prepared an opinion stating that the commentary "contains statements about the superiority of the indigenous inhabitants of the republic and the inferiority of other people."

At the end of July, the Investigative Committee of the ICR for the region initiated a criminal case against the deputy.

In August 2014, the case went to trial.

Sources

• A resident of Gorno-Altaisk may be imprisoned for extremist comments on the Internet // IA "Bankfax". 2014. August 19.
• http://fedpress.ru/news/society/news_society/1408444917-deputat-gorsoveta-gorno-altaiska-okazalsya-natsikom-emu-grozit-delo-ob-ekstremizme The deputy of the Gorno-Altaisk city council turned out to be a "Natsik". He faces a case of extremism // Federal Press. 2014. August 19.