Linguistic examination did not find any signs of justification for terrorism in the words of the Pskov journalist

Linguistic expertise did not find any signs of justifying terrorism in the words of the Pskov journalist Svetlana Prokopieva. about this on his telegram channel. writes Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora International Human Rights Group,

Linguists and psychologists conducted a series of expert opinions on the article "Repression for the State" - a text version of the author's program Prokopyeva on "Echo of Moscow in Pskov". The examination was carried out, as Chikov notes, “by three doctors of sciences and professors, three candidates of sciences and associate professors of the Guild of Expert Linguists, the A. S. Pushkin Institute of the Russian Language and state universities,” and they did not find signs of justifying terrorism.

Prokopyeva's program aired on Echo of Moscow in Pskov in early November 2018, after which it was published as a column on the website of the Pskov news feed news agency. In December 2018, employees of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Main Radio Frequency Center” subordinate to Roskomnadzor, without the qualifications of linguists, drew up a conclusion on the presence of signs of justifying terrorism. As part of the pre-investigation check, the NP "Southern Expert Center" repeated the conclusion about the presence of these signs. A case was opened against Prokopyeva on charges of “publicly justifying and promoting terrorism” (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

• On November 7, 2018, Prokopieva discussed on the air of a radio program what made Mikhail Zhlobitsky commit a self-blast in the Arkhangelsk department of the FSB. One of the possible reasons, the journalist called the lack of conditions for political activism in Russia.
• The World Court in Pskov, at the suit of Roskomnadzor, fined the radio station "Echo of Moscow in Pskov" for the statements of Svetlana Prokopyeva by 150 thousand rubles, and "Pskov news feed" - by 200 thousand.
• In July 2019, Sberbank blocked the accounts of Svetlana Prokopieva: Rosfinmonitoring put her on the federal list of suspects of involvement in extremist or terrorist activities. *