Deputy Valery Rashkin asked to check Vladimir Solovyov's words regarding the rehabilitation of Nazism. He compared Navalny to Hitler

Deputy Valery Rashkin wrote a request to the Prosecutor General's Office demanding that the words of TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov be checked for rehabilitation of Nazism. This was reported by RBC.

Rashkin's claims are related to the fact that on air at Rossiya-1, Solovyov, explaining why he does not respect politician Alexei Navalny, compared him to the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, and the saboteur Otto Skorzeny. He called both of them, unlike Navalny, "brave."

"Skorzeny was an uncompromisingly brave man. True, he ended his life as an informant for the Israeli secret services. But that didn't stop him from being a Nazi criminal... Hitler, by the way, was a very brave man. Unlike this codpiece, he didn't dodge the army. He fought and fought valiantly during the First World War," Solovyov said.

Solovyov himself expressed confidence that his words were not a rehabilitation of Nazism. "I said that Hitler's personal courage was not a justification for his actions," the TV presenter noted.

• In May 2020, Rashkin asked the Prosecutor General's Office to check the statements of presenter Dmitry Kiselev for violations of the law on combating extremism due to his phrase about the need to "erect monuments to Kolchak, Wrangel, Denikin, Krasnov." The deputy considered that mentioning Pyotr Krasnov in such a context was his glorification. This initiative had no consequences.
• The article on the rehabilitation of Nazism provides for liability for approving the crimes established by the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal. The corresponding act, committed with the use of the media, is punishable by a fine, forced labor, or imprisonment for up to five years.