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Administrators of criminally oriented public pages were accused of organizing an extremist community
In relation to the residents of Yekaterinburg, a case is being investigated under Art. 280 and 282.1 of the Criminal Code.
In August 2018, it became known that the central apparatus of the FSB was investigating a case about the activities of publics on the VKontakte social network and an Instagram account with a criminal theme. A married couple from Yekaterinburg was charged under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism via the Internet) and ch. 1 and 2 Art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code (organization of an extremist community and participation in it); another defendant in the case is their friend. On May 31, the Verkh-Isetsky District Court sent the men under arrest, they are in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center in Moscow, and a written undertaking not to leave was taken from the pregnant wife of one of them.
A contract serviceman and his girlfriend (currently his wife), who worked as a cashier, administered the public pages "A.U.E" and "✵Sh✵P✵A✵N✵A✵" (now they are blocked). Their friend administered the community "✵✵✵Free Master✵✵✵Shop of Interests✵✵✵", and together with his brother organized the work of the printing shop "Absolute". According to the defendant, they all considered this activity exclusively as a side job.
However, according to investigators, she became a supporter of the " ideology of violence against law enforcement officers" Arrested Urkagan unity " " and no later than February 2017, she joined the A.U.E. community headed by her future husband. She is blamed for the administration of the "A.U.E" and "✵Sh✵P✵A✵N✵A✵" publics, the sale through them, as well as through the page of the "Absolut" workshop and the Instagram account "bacota.aye" " products with the symbols of the "Prisoner Urkagan unity" movement "in order to " popularize the ideology " and " make profit necessary for the functioning of the extremist community ". In addition, the investigation believes that between April 18 and May 27, 2017, she published 14 entries calling for violence against police and FSB officers.
The ideology of the underworld (and the "A.U.E." subculture) is oriented towards illegal activities and is conceptually incompatible with the realization of citizens' constitutional rights. However, this ideology is not political and is not aimed at changing the constitutional order. Therefore, we believe that activities to popularize this ideology should not be the subject of anti-extremist legal regulation, although in principle it can be criminalized. Perhaps, for the organizers of structures that exploit criminal topics and incite violence, a new criminal norm should be provided, similar in composition to Part 1 of Art. 239 of the Criminal Code (creation of a public association whose activities involve violence against citizens).
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