For whom Siberia cries

Single pickets were held in the center of Novosibirsk with a demand for the resignation of the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky, whom the journalists accused of harassment. It is reported by NGS.NOSOSI.

The picket participants held the Zaichutka posters, can you hand over the mandate? ”,“ Keep your hands away from journalists ”,“ Ethics Committee justifies the harassment of the deputy of Slutsky. Through the Duma, ”“ Get yourself for the mandate. ” The action took place without incident. The policeman only checked the documents from one of the participants.

“For several days, journalists went to the Duma with pickets, but it seems to me that everyone needs to do this, because the situations that State Duma deputies are justifying everywhere - in offices, in educational institutions. Siberian deputies supported their unworthy colleague of Slutsky, accordingly, they at least do not condemn his behavior,” said the picket participant Alexander Popova.

Picket participants also talked about a scandalous performance at the Novosibirsk State University of the Dean of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University Vitaly Tretyakov on Friday. At the student’s request to comment on the scandal in the State Duma, Tretyakov replied that he knew Slutsky well and that “like any normal man, in certain circumstances, he could put his hand on a naked knee for a woman and on some other place.” The dean also said that he did not see in this "nothing bad." Most students after that defiantly left the audience, RTVI reported .

On Friday, the Russian independent trade union of journalists and media workers called on the parliamentary OSCE Assembly to stop cooperation with Slutsky . Journalists also called on foreign publications to join the boycott of the State Duma, as well as condemn the actions of Slutsky and his colleagues from the ethics commission, "urging them to apologize for the violation of personal integrity and the justification of the harassment."

On the same day, the State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that he sees the elements of bullying in relation to the members of the ethics commission that did not find "violations of behavioral norms" from Slutsky. “To put pressure on the deputies, moreover, to hang labels, to poison the deputies, because they made a decision that is considered fair and necessary, this means to leave the legal field,” said the speaker. He is not inclined to consider the situation around Slutsky and the charges of harassment against him as a single incident, especially since such accusations recently were also addressed to the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the chairman of the culture committee of Stanislav Govorukhin .

After the decision of the ethics commission, a number of publications announced the boycott of the State Duma. Among them are RBC, “Rain”, “Echo of Moscow”, “Vedomosti”, “Kommersant”, “Lenta.ru”, “New newspaper” RTVI, Znak.com, Republic and many others. In response, the State Duma deprived of 48 journalists who announced the boycott of publications. "Among them are 39 employees of the RBC media -holding, seven -" rain "and one correspondent from Znak.som and Novaya Gazeta," the State Duma reported. “The rest who publicly declared the recall of their correspondents do not have accreditation on an ongoing basis in the State Duma.”