A lawsuit has been filed in Karelia to restrict access to a poem about veterans

The prosecutor's office of Sortavala demands to restrict access to the poem banned in 2015.

April 26, 2016 Prosecutor's Office of the Republic Karelia reported that the prosecutor's office of Sortavala filed a complaint with the Sortavala city court action to restrict access to posted on the user's personal page one of the sites of the poem, the text of which contains "a negative assessment veterans of the Great Patriotic War and discredits their exploits " . Poem, was reportedly banned in 2015.

Obviously, we are talking about the poem " Soviet veterans ", which allegedly belongs to Boris Stomakhin and was published on the banned site stomahin.info. Tverskoy district the court recognized the poem as extremist 16 April 2015, from our point of view, is unlawful.

The poem is written in an extremely sharp polemical tone, indeed, it can be considered offensive. However, incitement of hostility towards the Russians we did not find it. In addition, we believe that veterans of the Great of the Patriotic War do not constitute a group to be protected by anti-extremist legislation. Recall also that we are convinced that the concept of "social group" should be excluded from the anti-extremist articles, since it is not clearly defined in legislation.

Sources

• The prosecutor's office demands to restrict access to extremist material on the Internet // Website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Karelia. 2016. April 26.