Ivanovo: fine for video recording on the social network “VKontakte”

In November 2015, a court in Ivanovo fined two offenders for the video recordings “Anonymous Address to the Citizens of Russia” and Timur Matsuraev’s song “Islamic Mind” on the social network VKontakte.

In November 2015, the Sovetsky District Court of Ivanovo brought two residents of Ivanovo to administrative responsibility under Article 20.29 Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials). They were sentenced to fines of 1,000 and 2,000 rubles.

Earlier, the prosecutor’s office of the Sovetsky district of Ivanovo discovered during a joint inspection with employees of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ivanovo region that two local residents freely available on their pages on the VKontakte social network posted videos “Anonymous’ appeal to the citizens of Russia” and Timur Matsuraev’s song “Islamic Mind." The videos were recognized by the decisions of the Aznakaevsky District Court of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Pervomaisky District Court of the city of Rostov-on-Don as extremist information materials and included in the federal list of extremist materials.

At the time of consideration of the prosecutor's decisions, these video materials were removed by the offenders from their pages on the VKontakte social network. Sources

• In Ivanovo, in the actions of Internet users, violations of the law on countering //
• extremism // Official website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Ivanovo Region. November 11, 2015