A Perm journalist became a defendant in a criminal case under the article of inciting hatred and enmity

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the article on inciting hatred and enmity (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) against Perm journalist and public figure Roman Yushkov. This was reported by the Periscope news agency.

The basis for initiating the case were comments on a video of the Tsargrad channel entitled “Sex slave for the diaspora. Azerbaijanis are angry in Izhevsk.”

Yushkov was searched and then interrogated. This is not the first criminal case under this article that has been brought against a journalist.

• In December 2019, a case was opened against Yushkov under the article on inciting hatred or hostility towards a social group (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code). The occasion was Yushkov’s speech during a hearing on the construction of a Jewish center.
• On September 12, 2018, Roman Yushkov was sentenced to two years of suspended imprisonment for publishing the article “Stop feeding strangers.” He was found guilty under the article on inciting hatred or enmity (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code). On another charge - the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) - the jury acquitted him.
• In May 2017, Yushkov was sentenced to a fine of 350 thousand rubles for the publication “Say no to a stranger” , finding him guilty of inciting hatred or enmity (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code). Later, the appeal court reduced the fine to 200 thousand rubles. In addition, Yushkov, an associate professor at Perm University, was banned from teaching for two years.
• In 2015, the publicist was sentenced to a year and a half suspended sentence for the article “Hysteria in Pugachev’s style,” published in the regional newspaper Zvezda. In it, Yushkov criticized the Perm police “for their inability to counteract ethnocrime.”