The prosecutor's office decided to check a book about criminal groups in Tatarstan for extremism

In Tatarstan, the prosecutor's office began checking the extremism of the book “The Word of a Kid. Criminal Tatarstan 1970-2010s. about it on Facebook . told Its author Robert Garaev

According to the writer, he learned about the check from the video of the local TV channel Efir. Ruslan Galiyev, senior assistant to the prosecutor of Tatarstan, said in the story that “experts will be involved in the check,” and according to the results, “prosecutor response measures will be taken,” up to and including the withdrawal of the circulation.

Efir also gave Anton Gorin, Associate Professor of the Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Social Philosophical Sciences and Mass Communications of Kazan Federal University, a chance to speak. Gorin stressed that Garayev's book "should be recognized as extremist" because its pages "justify the AUE ideology."

A clarification about the place of work of Anton Gorin has been added to the text of the news

• On August 17, the Supreme Court, at the suit of the Prosecutor General , banned the "international public movement" Prisoner Criminal Unity "", stating that "AUE is a well-structured and managed organization - a youth movement of an extremist orientation."
• On September 9, in Yekaterinburg, a court sentenced up to seven years in prison to three administrators of groups on VKontakte on the subject of AUE. They were found guilty of inciting extremism, creating and participating in an extremist community, and inciting hatred or enmity against FSB and police officers.