Shit and national security. How and for what comedian Idrak Mirzalizade was forbidden to enter Russia for life

On August 30, the Ministry of Internal Affairs for life banned the entry into Russia of a stand-up comic and a citizen of Belarus Idrack Mirzalizade, recognizing him as a threat of national security because of a joke about Russians, mattresses and shit. Despite the fact that Idrak has a residence permit, it is extremely difficult to challenge such a decision - in such cases, the courts agree with the position of the security forces. The Mediazon figured out how the law on the “undesirable” of foreigners works and why he turned against the comedian.

For which Idrak was recognized as "undesirable"

Speaking at YouTube show “Accelerations” of March 1, comedian Idrak Mirzizade joked about the difficulties that foreigners face when finding housing in Moscow, since real estate owners want to see only the Slavs by tenants. He said that he rented an apartment in which the previous residents were Russians: “My brother and I threw off a frosted mattress, and in this apartment there was a separate mattress. Previous tenants, if that, Russians. Apparently, the Russians are covered with shit and go to bed. ” Next, the comedian added: “The French are a great nation and can afford to be nationalists. Yes, it is bad to be a nationalist, but the French can afford it <...> And who is this? Some Russian Pavel looks at me with a claim. ”

A few months later, social networks and the media drew attention to this joke; She caused a wave of indignation - “Tsargrad” wrote about the Mirzizade and mentioned on the air the TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov. The creator of the “male state” blogger Vladislav Pozdnyakov also participated in the campaign against the comedian. In one of the posts on August 24, he urged subscribers to write appeals to the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a request to "consider the issue of recognizing an undesirable stay of [Idrak] in the Russian Federation." Whether this is connected with the current decision of the ministry is unknown-in a press release of the Ministry of Internal Affairs does not mention anyone's appeals.

On the evening of June 25,they attacked Idrak - he was hit from behind on the head and demanded to apologize.

The comedian himself insisted that his words were torn out of context, and he ironized the xenophobia: “I would like to make a joke a little. Naturally, this is a ridicule of judgment on one negative incident about the whole people. What any non -Slavic CIS is faced regularly. I am ready to declare to the whole world that the Russians have not forced mattresses. ”

A month later, an administrative protocol on hatred was drawn up for Idrak. The prosecutor’s office insisted that the comedian “pronounced the statements containing <...> signs of humiliation of a group of persons allocated on a national basis, as well as the promotion of its inferiority.” The protocol quoted his statements about mattresses and shit. On August 9, the Tagan court of Moscow arrested Mirzazade for 10 days. While Idrak was serving an arrest in a special -reception, his colleagues held two concerts in his support and launched a flash mob #Idraknevraneg; Some came to meet him from the special receiver.

Having freed himself, Mirzalizade thanked friends, colleagues and lawyer and asked for forgiveness from those who hit this situation: "Let's live together and move on."

After the arrest of Idrak, from the Channel "Stalldap-Club #1", the record of his last solo concert disappeared, the constant spectator of the comedian told Mediazone. When exactly she was removed, she does not know, but on the day of arrest it was still available. In addition, from the channel of Vladimir Bukharov, the recording of the podcast with Mirzazalya disappeared - apparently, on the entry, the comedian partially retold his jokes from the sololet.

This entry is still available at Apple Podcasts . Mirzalizade was joking that he loved to provoke the audience: "Sometimes I just score Russians for ten minutes." In addition, in one of his stand -ups, he mentioned the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin and the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin.

What did Idrak say about Sechin and Volodin?

“You know, in my last performances, Sechin is leaning, this is the head of Rosneft. This is a leech, because of which everything is bad in Russia. Have you seen his face? Just look at the face, I recently thought that Sechin's face is what you can go to rallies to scare police. It is not necessary to expose Sechin to understand that this is a villain, in any film there is such an erysipelas, not as a charming character as possible.

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Whose face I have not liked there yet, Surkov, or something ... in the State Duma, who is the main one sitting? Volodin! Such an evil face. When they said that it was impossible to insult power, there one of the deputies said that respect should be earned, and we simply tell people that we cannot be offended. And Volodin then stated that the authorities are those whom the people chose, insulting power, you insult the people. I looked and thought: "How much you can." It became unpleasant that these people simply laugh, and you should read 20 volumes to present them? No, you can just rot them for their appearance, just laugh openly. I think Putin Sechin allows everything, simply because Putin does not want him to be next to him for a long time. Sechin comes in and Putin is like this: "All-all, you can, just go."

How the law works

The Ministry of Internal Affairs refers to the law on the law on the procedure for entering Russia and departure from it, which allows you to declare a foreigner to be undesirable in Russia-“for security reasons”, or because of the threat of public order or health of people. “[Such a decision is made] in order to protect the foundations of the constitutional system, morality, rights and legitimate interests of other persons,” the document says. The decision is not adopted by the court, but by the executive authorities -, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, the Ministry of Justice or Rospotrebnadzor.

Petersburgsky Olga Zeitlina explains that the Ministry of Justice forbids foreigners to live in Russia due to grave or especially serious crimes-as a rule, the decision is made after a person is freed from the colony. Rospotrebnadzor is engaged in foreigners who suffer from dangerous infectious diseases . “And the“ threat of security ”is the most blurry formulation. You can never say for certain, for which they recognize. What can take into account, for example, the FSB, when it makes such a decision, no one knows, ”the lawyer says. It is almost impossible to challenge it in Russian courts - judges rely on the opinion of the security forces, certificates and conclusions that they bring to the meetings: “A representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the FSB comes and says:“ Well, yes, there is unwillingness ”.

Who else was recognized as "undesirable"

One of the first resonant applications of this law occurred in 2007. Then the FSB forbade the entry of The New Times by the correspondent Natalya Morar - she was not allowed into the country at border control at Sheremetyevo Airport. Under the same article, for five years, musicians from the Bloodhound Gang group were banned for five years after, during a performance in Odessa, the bassist put the Russian flag into his pants, and then threw it into the crowd. In 2016, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Irina Gerashchenko, who wanted to go to the court in the case of Nadezhda Savchenko, was not allowed to go to Russia.

Jennifer Suzan Gaspar, the wife of a Russian lawyer from “team 29” Ivan Pavlov, was recognized as “undesirable” in Russia. “Kommersant” wrote about foreigners who were expelled from Russia under this article.

One of the latest applications of the law is the ban on entering the territory of Russia for a period of 50 years by the Kazakhstan blogger Kuatu Akhmetov, who shot videos, in which he aggressively demanded from people to speak with him not in Russian, but in the Kazakh language. Against the backdrop of a scandal with Akhmetov, State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein said that United Russia is preparing a bill to ban the entrance to Russia “Russophobes and Nazi lasts”. Why another law is needed, Khinshtein did not explain.

The security forces enjoy the right to declare foreigners “undesirable” not only in scandalous cases: for example, in 2016, three Turkish students of MEPhI were expelled from Russia. There is no statistics on the application of this law in the public domain; Cases of recognition by “undesirable” isolated, says Ceitlin’s lawyer, based on his practice.

After receiving this status, a foreigner must leave Russia in three days, otherwise it will be forced forcibly. Zeitlina says that such a deportation is not slowed down: the decision is not made by the court, and it comes into force immediately; It can be appealed, but the complaint will be considered a post -fact. In some cases, an “undesirable” foreigner can prohibit traveling to any country except the country of his citizenship: “For example, there is an agreement between Russia and Belarus that [Belarusian citizen] may prohibit the third -party countries from Russia - [will be launched] only to Belarus.”

The comedian Mirzalizade does not concern - he managed to leave and is “not in Russia and not in Belarus,” his acquaintance told Mediazone. Belarus.

“Unwillingness is the worst, the threat of security is the worst. And he is not convicted. If there was any criminal sentence, one could still understand. And here what happens: said the word - went home? The deadline affects - forever. Our Constitutional Court even says that it cannot be forever, there should be a deadline, because where then do the statute of limitations go? Even for the murder there is a statute of limitations, but here is forever - for the words, ”the lawyer of Zeitlin is perplexed.

Editor: Maria Klimova