In Samara, a mathematics teacher was brought to justice for publishing the poem “They say that I have been spotted in Zion”

In Samara, a court fined Anatoly Gusev, a school mathematics teacher, 1,000 rubles, finding him guilty of failing to remove Leonid Kornilov's banned poem "They Say I've Been Seen in Zion" from one of the Internet portals.

In October 2016, it became known that an administrative case was initiated in Samara under Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials) against Anatoly Gusev, a mathematics teacher at one of the schools.

According to the case file, in January 2012 on his page on the portal "About school.ru" the teacher posted a poem by Leonid Kornilov “They say that I have been seen in Zion”, recognized as extremist by the decision of the Novospassky District Court of the Ulyanovsk Region on February 2, 2012 and included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials (p. 1849). The poem was posted before it was recognized extremist. On September 1, 2016, the school where Gusev teaches received a call from the Center "E" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Samara Region and was told that they were asking Gusev to come for a conversation with the lieutenant colonel.

After a visit to the Center "E" Anatoly Gusev removed the poem from the site.

Despite this, the Krasnoglinsky District Court of Samara found A. Gusev guilty and fined him 1,000 rubles.

The teacher did not agree with this decision and appealed it to the Samara Regional Court, but in February 2017, the latter rejected the complaint.

In June 2017, A. Gusev announced that he intended to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

Sources

• In Samara, students of a teacher accused of extremism collect signatures in his defense // 63.ru. 2016. October 20.
• ttp://volga.news/article/422208.html The police are trying to prosecute Samara mathematics teacher for extremism // Volga-news. 2016. October 13.
• Samara teacher accused of publishing extremist poem appeals to Supreme Court // Radio freedom. 2017. June 26.