Try to justify yourself

The Prosecutor General’s Office will check the existence of a public justification for terrorism and extremism in the actions of the organizers of the Artdokfest festival, as well as directors of films about the war in eastern Ukraine, “Flight of the Babeta Bubenets and“ War for the Peace ”Evgeny Titarenko. This was stated by the head of the Prochrevsky movement SERB Igor Beketov (Gosha Tarasich), TASS reports .

"We received a positive response from the Prosecutor General's Office regarding our statement about checking the organizer of the Artdox 2017 festival Vitaly Mansky and the director of the film" Flight of the bullet "Beata Bubenets (Elena Stepanova), as well as the Ukrainian director" War for the world "Titarenko for the presence of signs of a crime under articles 205.1, 205.2, 280 and 282 of the Criminal Code (Promotions of terrorist activity, public justification of terrorism, public calls for extremist activity, excitement is not addicted or enmity. - Ed.), Beketov said.

The prosecutor's office said that the public demonstration of such documentary films provokes mass riots, since citizens are actually forced to resort to self -defense of their civil rights, "to which the organizers of the festival are consciously and purposefully provoke."

On December 9-10, in the Moscow Cinema October, the film director of the Russian director Bubnets “Fleet Paul” was outlined as part of Artdokfest. On December 9, some supporters of the militants of the DPR and LPR appeared on the show. They threatened the organizers with “serious problems” during the next demonstration of the film, promising that at the next session “500 people are suitable”.

The next day , peas and other Black Hundreds from SERB and the "Union of Paratroopers" broke into the hall during a demonstration of the film with the flags "Novorossia". There were not 500 visitors, as the organizers were promised the day before, but about 50. Some militants were dressed in camouflage; Some smelled of alcohol.

The screen was doused with urine, after which Beketov began, climbing up to the elevation in front of the audience, began to shout: "Stop showing the film! The film will not be the same where the Russians are killed!" Several police officers in the hall brought the militants. Goroshko, Beketov and Skoda were detained and delivered to OP "Arbat". However, due to the stench that spread in the hall, Mansky canceled the session, announcing the evacuation of the audience.

On December 13, the Presnensky district court arrested Beketov and two more participants in the movement for seven days. Later, the viewer of the film Vitaly Leontyev was arrested for the same time. He entered the polemic with the pogroms and was detained with them.

On the same day, the metropolitan CPE demanded that the Artdokfest Directorate provide a copy of the “Bullet of Bullet” , “War for the Peace” and the film “Mustafa” by Ernes Sarykhalilov about the National Leader of the Crimean Tatars Mustafa Dzhemilev.

After the denunciation of the State Duma of the unicorn Peter Tolstoy, the Ministry of Culture, after the denunciation of the vice speaker, sent an appeal to the Prosecutor General about checking the "War for the Peace" . In the response of Tolstoy signed by the head of the department, Vladimir Medinsky, it was noted that the film “contains scenes with obscene abuse and contains openly lying information aimed at discrediting our country”, and therefore, the film “Explicit Signs of Extremist orientation”.

On December 7, the Mustafa show was canceled by the October Cinema Administration after a call of unknown persons . "War for the sake of peace" was excluded from the program by the organizers of "Artdokfest". The directorate referred to the inability to provide reliable protection against provocations in the Czech center at the Embassy of the East European country, where the show was planned.