The police came to the Chelyabinsk students trying to deify freedom of information

Students of one of the Chelyabinsk colleges Alexander Belyaev, Iskander Tagaev and Nikita Porotsky at the end of January submitted a notification to the regional minista about the beginning of the new religious group - "The Great Church of Divination of Information". The main task of their organization, activists announced the collapse of a censorship barrier that blocks the objective picture of the world. A few days later, law enforcement officers visited students, Radio Liberty reports.

“In the morning, police officers came to my house. They wanted to deliver me to the prosecutor’s office. I was not at home, my mother opened the door. The police tried to inspect the apartment for some leaflets and posters, but they didn’t let them in. The police asked my mother if our group plans to engage in extremism or selling drugs. They made an attempt to talk with my 87-year-old grandmother. I study, but they did not find me at the end, the police arrived at the headquarters of Navalny, where I was a volunteer, and handed me a subpoena.

According to him, an employee of the prosecutor’s office explained what was happening that all recently registered religious groups are being checked. According to the document, on the basis of which law enforcement officers drew attention to the "great church of deification of information, the Chelyabinsk center" E "initiator was the initiator of the audit.

In a statement by the local colonel of the police S.V. Federeygin addressed to the prosecutor of the Tractorozavodsky district of Chelyabinsk, Roman Panteleev, it is indicated that its representatives gather at the place of registration of the religious group and “carry out missionary activities”, which violates Article 5.26 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation.

“Our group has not yet managed to work hard to work. We only managed to register the group on the VKontakte social network and posted the news there. We are not engaged in missionary activities. We are not engaged in any services and are not going to. We are not a religious group in the traditional sense. I assumed that we could have problems with the authorities, but did not have time to do anything, and we had already come for me,” - he had already arrived for me. Belyaev noted.

At first, young people wanted to create a youth association, but "the state did everything to tighten the rules for registering public organizations." It is easier to create your own church in Russia now, students counted.

“They spend a lot of money on propaganda, and really important information does not reach the audience. We consider it our mission to replenish this gap. We have six commandments. Critically evaluate any information. To question everything that you hear and see. To be impartial. To look for the truth everywhere and in everything. To be constantly self -developing. To be aware of everything that is happening,” the interlocutor explained, ”the interlocutor explained. Portal.

He also emphasized that the organization, conceived by him and his friends, is apolitical and has nothing to do with the opposition Alexei Navalny, although the guys are his supporters. “We want to show with our example that religious organizations should not be called to vote for someone and be at least somehow connected with politicians. We, as a religious group, unlike the Russian Orthodox Church, will maintain independence,” Belyaev emphasized.

His classmate Nikita Porotky added: “We want censorship to disappear and in the information field to talk more and write about important things: about the problems of education, health care, honest elections. I, for example, witnessed how the voters tried to buy in the State Duma of voters for five hundred rubles. We, of course, understand that propaganda has huge budgets, but We only have a small site and so far a hundred people of adherents. but we will do everything in our power. "