Kaliningrad: A business was opened against a blogger because of a post at VKontakte

In Kaliningrad, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against Blogger Nikolai Gorelov, known under the pseudonym Nikolai Kirichenko. Gorelov told this to the correspondent of the Sever. Reali site. He was accused of rehabilitation of Nazism due to a recording on the VKontakte social network in May 2018.

In his note, the blogger wrote about the violence of the Red Army over the civilian population of Germany. Investigators saw in the blogger's record "Disrespect for the holiday of May 9." The blogger has no official letters from the Investigative Committee on the initiation of the case. According to him, he learned information about initiating a criminal case from the journalists of the Mediazone . Gorelova’s lawyer Maria Bonzler confirmed the information that investigators have opened the case. The press service of the Investigative Committee did not answer the question of the correspondent of the Sever. Realiy, offering to write an official request.

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Nikolai Gorelov was called to the Investigative Committee in early January. The investigator said about the possible initiation of a criminal case because of this post on the social network. The SK employees saw in the blogger’s record “Discharged for the holiday of May 9”.

For the first time he was called for interrogation on November 21, a summons were handed on the street. A few weeks before that, employees of the Center "E" (the unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the fight against extremism) offered him to go to the department for a conversation because of his posts on social networks. Presumably, the police believe that they have signs of insulting the feelings of believers and the rehabilitation of Nazism. After the first audit, the criminal case against the blogger refused to initiate.