Navalny supporter not allowed to participate in elections in Tsivilsk

Semyon Kochkin faced the consequences of publishing an excerpt from The John Oliver Show.

On August 4, 2017, the election commission refused the coordinator Cheboksary headquarters of Alexei Navalny to Semyon Kochkin in registration on elections as a candidate for the Tsivilsky District Assembly of Deputies. foundation the fact that Kochkin at the end of May 2017 of the Moscow The district court of Cheboksary found him guilty under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or demonstration of symbols of banned organizations), and at the end of June this decision approved by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Chuvashia.

Recall that, according to the Russian election law, citizens subjected to punishment for committing an administrative offense according to 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, cannot be elected if the voting in the elections takes place before expiration of the period during which the person is considered subjected to administrative punishment, that is, within one year from the date of termination enforcement of the decision to impose an administrative penalty.

occasion to prosecute Kochkin under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses was served by the fact that in August 2015 year, he made a repost of an excerpt from a satirical Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, translated by Andrey Bocharov. Speech it's about a video called "How Chechen girls cheated ISIS militants", in which the symbols of the banned in Russia "Islamic state". The video was about how three Chechen girls entered in correspondence with the militants, lured them out of money for travel to Syria, while they themselves went there didn't go. The host ridiculed the situation in which such fraud becomes effective counter-terrorism measure. Clearly the video was not meant to be propaganda of the ideology and practice of the "Islamic state", so we We believe that Kochkin was wrongfully brought to justice. However, the Russian legislation punishes public display of prohibited symbols without context.

Formerly Kochkina tried attract to responsibility for the repost of a collage with a swastika from the public of the singer Monetochka.

Sources

• Love Yegorova. Navalny's headquarters coordinator in Cheboksary was not allowed to vote // Idel.Reality. 2017. August 4.