“Fontanka”: Poklonskaya asked Center “E” to check the statements of director Alexei Uchitel

State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya sent an official request to the head of the department for combating extremism of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs to verify the statements of director Alexei Uchitel and his lawyer Konstantin Dobrynin, Fontanka writes, citing a source in law enforcement agencies.

The request states that the statements of the director and lawyer included “information about the State Duma deputy committing actions aimed at inciting hatred and that she provoked ‘pseudo-religious organizations’ to engage in extremist actions.” The publication notes that, according to the federal law “On Combating Extremist Activities,” falsely accusing a civil servant of extremism is in itself a manifestation of extremism.

In addition, the former prosecutor of Crimea submitted a request to the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to check the production of the film “Matilda” by Uchitel for compliance with the law and to request the script to be submitted for examination.

Previously, Poklonskaya sent inquiries regarding the film to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General's Office. “The request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs is new in the sense that previously, at the initiative of the Poklonskaya Prosecutor’s Office, a check of the film was already carried out, but that check was limited to the study of a three-minute advertising trailer. Based on the results of the study, the prosecutor's office did not reveal any violations of the law. In the new requests, both the subject of the inspection and its goals have changed,” explained the Fontanka source. He added that Poklonskaya is asking to find out the legality of spending budget funds allocated by the Cinema Fund.

On January 30, Poklonskaya threatened to sue to protect the right to privacy of Emperor Nicholas II because of the film “Matilda. The secret of the House of Romanov." “The actions of the filmmakers may contain signs of a number of criminal offenses provided for in Articles 128-1, 137, 138, 139 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Namely: slander contained in a publicly displayed work; violation of privacy, in terms of the illegal collection and dissemination of information about the private life of a person, constituting his personal or family secret, without his consent, or the dissemination of this information in a publicly displayed work,” the deputy said. She also referred to the Code of Laws of the Russian Empire of 1903.

The next day, some activists from “Christian State - Holy Russia” sent letters to Russian cinemas demanding that they refuse to distribute the film. They regarded the film posters as “a provocation to the Russian Maidan.” Activists threatened “the most radical methods of struggle.”

After this, the Teacher filed statements against Poklonskaya and the activists. In the first case, the director asked Prosecutor General Chaika to protect the people working on the film and employees of distribution organizations from threats and “other illegal actions of extremist persons, as well as from publicly disseminated slanderous fabrications of Mrs. Poklonskaya herself.”