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A criminal case was opened against an employee of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences due to a post in LiveJournal
Alexey Kasyan, an employee of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the father of Nikolai Kasyan, an activist of Navalny’s headquarters, was charged with a post on LiveJournal. This is the human rights advocacy of Open Russia.
According to the report, Kasyan is charged with Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity using the Internet). According to investigators, Kasyan posted a post on LiveJournal that contained signs of hostility towards Asians, Caucasians and groups of people identified based on a combination of national and religious characteristics.
Kasyan's girlfriend Olga Popova was interrogated: she is a witness in the case. At the Dorogomilovsky Interdistrict Investigation Department they checked her for “involvement in a crime” and asked about things in the apartment.
In the morning, Kasyan was searched. Only Olga Popova was in the apartment.