A criminal case was opened against the moderator of the pagan public. The applicant is also a pagan!

The reason was the publication of a picture depicting a Viking, which resolutely brings a hammer over church domes. What will end in the semi -oral history of the confrontation of the two pagans is unknown, but the article provides for the real term.

The pagan-director Sigvald God, the Petersburg lawyer Yevgeny Saltykov, who wrote the statement, told the “New”, that he drew attention to the picture in the group “Apples of Idunn. Northern paganism ”back in the fall of 2016. Then he, as a follower of the neopagan religion, “Asatra” (movements of the German-Scandinavian tradition) filed an application with the police, asking to verify the legality of the publication of the picture.

Sigvald Gody explained his step in a peculiar way: an attempt to protect his religion from accusations of intolerance against other cults. “I consider the public distribution of such materials unacceptable,” he said. “They expose my religion as extremist ideology and thoroughly expose the freedom of religion, my own and my loved ones.”

As a result, against the administrator of the group, who, by the way, was also a follower of Asatra, a resident of Barnaul Natalya Telegins was opened a criminal case under two articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - Art. 282 ("excitement of hatred or enmity") and Art. 148 ("Violation of the right to freedom of conscience and religions").

In a new commentary, Natalya Telegina said that the operatives came to her home in May - “For explanations about the pictures” received a request from St. Petersburg, she recalls. Telegin added that she has not yet been charged - now the case is at the prosecutor, and the Telegin calculates him in the hands of the next week.

Evgeny Saltykov (Sigvald God)

Reconstructor from St. Petersburg, lawyer

"Who is standing behind the nickname - I do not know"

- The matter may not be in a specific picture, just this case was one of many that I observed in a pagan community that is inexorably marginalized and where the idea of ​​religious intolerance, xenophobia and nationalism is promoted.

I myself have been a pagan for a long time. My goal was not to punish, not to plant, but to cause public outcry in the hope that this would at least form someone. Communities dedicated to traditions grow and multiply. It would seem good - but the ideas of the confrontation of paganism Christianity, which in fact, are not about. I would like to influence this situation. I used all the tools available to me.

- But the person you have given an application may receive a real term.

- About what kind of person I learned only after, I submitted to the administrator of the group. Who is standing behind the nickname is unknown to me. What will be the real term as a lawyer does not seem to me - I think the person will get off with a fine.

“If I did not do it as a member of the legal environment, someone from another religion could do it, in this case, Christianity. And, in the end, this would harm all the Gentiles. ”

Not only to those who share the mood of radical, but also to the law -abiding people, which I also belong.

Natalia Telegina

Public Administrator "Apples Idunn", Barnaul

"Rumors went that there was such an article"

- I was a little in shock. At one time I could not even believe until the documents were shown to me. According to rumors, she knew what a picture could be prosecuted. Rumors went that there was such an article. But to be serious ... This is horror, it is too much.

I am far from politics, from all this.

"It was even greater shock that Saltykov was also a pagan!"

In any way, he did not try to contact me, explain, express dissatisfaction, but immediately sued, without even knowing me! I have not seen his coordinates yet, I did not know anything about him. Then when the investigator showed the statement, I went to his page in VKontakte.

I am a loyal person, I try not to offend anyone in public - neither representatives of my religion, nor others. I have not only information about the Vikings in the group, but also about the Slavs, other ancient pagan cultures. That is, there is no such thing that we took our position, but we are not friends with others, and do not play in our sandbox. It's stupid.

When I saw this picture, I remembered the historical facts of the 9th-10th centuries about the first attacks of the Vikings on monasteries in Europe, there were then raids. I choose pictures in Yandex, she turned up there. But as it turned out later, this picture is not just a historical fact, but it was created specifically for the anniversary reconstructor festival in Novgorod. There can be no extremism here! This is purely history, in no way connected with modern life.

I have the last message to him ( Evgenia Saltykov. - Ed. ) On the page I read and realized that it is useless to look for a consensus with this person. When they contacted, he told me the same thing that was written in the statement - you behave badly, violating the laws. And he did not express much desire to communicate with me more.

Expert's opinion

Maria Kravchenko

Head of the section "Unlawful Anti -Excremism", the Center "SOVA"

- We are talking about the means of religious polemic, which caused the author’s complaints from the author. Perhaps the claims did not arise from scratch-the applicant, apparently, is afraid that due to someone’s provocative statements, neoism can be persecuted for extremism, and, say, the activities of his own religious group can be prohibited. However, a similar case of preventive actions, when a representative of a religious course, out of fear, complains to the state of his own fellow, I meet for the first time.

It is clear that different forms of mutual denunciations are found in a religious environment, especially where there are competing currents. So, denunciations of representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church on the activities of new religious movements are to some extent, too, competition. Here, a person was involved in cleaning the ranks. The basis for this, probably, was the fear of persecution on anti -ethrian articles. The just loud trial ended with the prohibition of Jehovah's witnesses and representatives of other religious movements are likely to try on this situation on themselves. But fearing for himself, to criminalize another is not the best polemic technique, especially considering that anti -extremist articles provide for severe punishment, and when they are used, abuse is frequent.

Users of social networks have a completely civilized method: if they believe that content is dangerous, it is possible to achieve it first by negotiations with the author, then through the administration of social networks. With rare exceptions, it is completely optional to apply to the state with a demand to institute criminal proceedings.

The current criminal case is by no means the only case when the complaints of representatives of religious movements led to very real results. The New Gazeta recalls that, in addition to the Pussy Riot and Pokemon punk, Pokemon in the Temple on Blood inspired the organs.

Statement as a prayer. Selection

This criminal case is by no means the only case when complaints lead to very real results: in addition to punk -coat Pussy Riot and Pokemon in the temple, there were other cases. The New Gazeta provides monitoring data from the Owl Center.

• Gagarin on the cross, April 2015. Permian

On the day of astronautics, graffiti appeared on one of the high -rise buildings depicting the crucified on the cross of Yuri Gagarin. “Science and religion for a long time were on different sides of the barricades, trying to win their share of influence on the minds,” the creator Alexander Zhunev commented on graffiti. The Vice Speaker of the Perm City Duma, Yuri Utkin, however, only a banal act of vandalism in the composition, which he said to the police. On the same day, the utilities destroyed graffiti, and according to the results of the trial, Zhunev paid a thousand rubles of a fine.

• Bishop against the nightclub, June 2015. Kirov region

After the appeal of the head of the Synodal Department for the relationship between the Church and the Society, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, the authorities of the Kirov region organized an audit of the activities of a night club in Yaransk. The bishop of Yaransky and Luzsky Paisiy, with a complaint against the neighborhood of the club with the temple, turned to Vsevolod Chaplin. During the checks of the prosecutor's office and Rospotrebnadzor, violations were identified, the work of the night club was suspended.

• Listening to Sur from the Qur'an, November 2015. Moscow

The reason for the police detained two Muslim brothers Timur and Zaurbek in November 2015 was a complaint of neighbors against “religious singing” coming from a rented apartment. Police officers searched the hostess of the apartment, withdrawing a computer in which there were audio files that caused the indignation of the neighbors. Men were interrogated in the police department.

• Flock against the shepherd, September 2016. Saint Petersburg

At the appeal of the flock, the World Court of the Frunze District of St. Petersburg fined Sergey Zhuravlev, the preacher of the reformal Orthodox Church of Christ the Savior, finding him guilty under Part 4 of Art. 5.26 Code of Administrative Offenses (illegal missionary work). The essence of the claims to the man by the authors of the statement to the police came down to the fact that Zhuravlev "tried to persuade the Jewish community to go to Orthodoxy." The convicted person did not admit to the guilty, but did not dispute the court decision.

• “Jesus Christ is a superstar”, October 2016. Omsk

After the complaint of the Orthodox movement “Family, Love, Fatherland” in Omsk, the play “Jesus Christ - Superstar” was canceled in Omsk. The Minister of Culture of the Omsk Region Viktor Lapukhin, however, called reporters another reason - supposedly the performance was canceled, because it was not possible to sell tickets. The official explained: the local authorities did not give an order to cancel the performance, but on the contrary, answered the complainants - the performance was staged "with the approval of the Russian Orthodox Church."

• Buddhists against Buddha-Bar, November 2016. Novokuznetsk

The prosecutor's office of the Kemerovo region and the prosecutor's office of Novokuznetsk considered the complaint of V.S. Sanzhieva for the leadership of Buddha-Bar. The prosecutor's office came to the conclusion that the performance of dancing and drinking alcohol against the backdrop of the statue of the Buddha can be offensive to the religious feelings of citizens professing Buddhism. The applicant was a resident of Ulan-Ude, who posted an appeal in protest against the use of the name of Buddha and the attributes of Buddhism in entertainment institutions.

• “There is no God,” November 2016. Stavropol

Participants in the discussion on the VKontakte social network filed a statement to the police at their opponent Viktor Krasnov, who wrote in the commentary - “There is no God”. Krasnov was a search, after which the Investigative Committee charged on the first part of Article 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Public insulting the religious feelings of believers”). Krasnov spent a month in a psychiatric hospital, but the examination recognized him as sane. In June 2016, the court suspended the trial - the defense demanded an independent linguistic examination. In February 2017, the proceedings were terminated due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

• Yoga case, January 2017. Saint Petersburg

According to the complaint of Nasibulin in St. Petersburg, the police right during the lecture at the Vedalife festival was detained by Yoga Dmitry Ugay. The man warned law enforcement officers about the violation of the “Yarovaya Law” - the yoga was accused of carrying out illegal missionary activities. The Smolny District Court of the city of St. Petersburg refused to satisfy the complaint due to the lack of a composition of the offense.