Who was persecuted in March for words on the Internet: celebrities and bloggers

As in the past months, media personalities were held accountable mainly for “anti -spectaceous” statements, and the measures were very different - from the initiation of criminal or administrative cases to the abolition of tour.

This is the second digest about how Russians were punished for statements on the network. The first was dedicated to politicians and activists . Now we will talk about how creative people, bloggers, celebrities and other media personalities were persecuted.

March 2022 began with the establishment of a criminal case against one of the founders of the punk group Pussy Riot Nadezhda Tolokonnikova under the article on insulting the feelings of believers (part 1 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code). The criminal case is investigated by the philistine inter -district department of the TFR of Moscow. The basis for initiating a criminal case was publications on social networks. As part of the criminal case, a series of searches was held.

At the end of the month, Tolokonnikov was put on this case on the federal wanted list.

The girl has been living outside the Russian Federation for the past few years. In 2012, together with Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich, he was convicted of an action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. Left for 1 year and 10 months in prison in the colonies of Mordovia and the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Released in December 2013 by amnesty. Recall that it was after the Pussy Riot case to Article 148 of the Criminal Code that changes were made that criminally insulting the feelings of believers.

Russian literary online services forced the Kazakhstan writer Margot Erwand to withdraw from the sale of one of his books because of the secondary character-geya. She received a letter from the publishing house demanding to check her works for the presence of the content banned in the Russian Federation after the adoption of the Russian Law on LGBT Propagand in November 2022.

The author from Kazakhstan ignored this requirement, but in early March she received a second letter from the Russian publisher. According to him, the neural network found the content banned from publishing in one of the works of Erwand.

The Russian publishing house suggested that the author of Kazakhstan bring to the text of the edit: either cut the character from the plot, or change his sexual preferences. Margo Erwand did not change the plot of the work because of the requirements of Russian legislation and withdrew the book from the sale in Russia.

Director Arthur Aristakisyan was detained at the Moscow Airport of Vnukovo. The director was supposed to fly to Istanbul on vacation, but after passport control, law enforcement officers were taken away and took him to the police department in the Russian Air Force in the Bogovaya district. The acquaintances of Aristahisyan suggested that what was happening could be due to his posts against the “special operation”.

As the director himself later said , the conversation with the police really began with questions about Ukraine, and he once again confirmed his sharply negative attitude towards the events that took place there, then law enforcement officers showed him a denunciation where the Stalinist blogger Sergei Kolyasnikov accused him of allegedly forced students to participate in his lectures by naked, giving a link to 15-second videos. Aristakisyan explained that on a video that got into telegram-a fragment of a lecture that he gave by Zoom, and the girl in the frame is not a student at all, but a 32-year-old model and actress Anna Kharlamova. Kharlamov herself was shocked by how what was happening at the lecture was presented by a scammer, adding:

“There is nothing close there about sex. There is more about the pain of humanity. Nudity has nothing to do with it. After all, I am a Jewish, there is about pain. ”

Journalists and Aristakisyan himself suggest that this is generally associated with pressure on the Moscow International University, a number of teachers of which expressed their "anti -spokeship" point of view, and the university itself did not take part in the agitation or justification of the actions of the authorities.

After interrogation, the director was released from the police. Whether the criminal proceedings were instituted in connection with the MMU and whether the security forces of other employees of the university or film school interrogated, it is not known.

In 2013, Aristaksyan starred in the documentary Free Pussy Riot: The Movie.

The book online service Rideo shot from the publication a documentary book by the writer Masha Pushkina “Bipolards. Without masks. " The platform asked to remove the mention of the artist Sasha Skochilenko, who was arrested in the case of the “fakes about the army”, explaining such a demand “an attempt to protect the writer from fines”.

In the book of Masha Pushkin, the stories of eight people with a bipolar disorder are collected - including Sasha Skochilenko. One of the fragments shows a quote from the artist that she lives with a girl and wants to marry her. Probably, the requirements to delete an excerpt from the service are related to the Law on LGBT Propagand .

Unnamed State Duma deputies sent an appeal to the Prosecutor General’s Office to seize the apartment from Zemfira on the Frunzenskaya embankment for 55 million rubles, non-residential premises on Magistral Street in Moscow, a plot in Bashkiria and two foreign cars-BMW and Mercedes-Benz.

The reason for this, the media claims, was a song where there is the words "we will teach you, <expression on the verge of obscenely>, to love your homeland." The singer laid her out on social networks.

Later, a member of the State Duma Committee on Culture, Sergei Solovyov, admitted that Zemfira could get an extremist status:

“The singer Zemfira has the status of a foreign agent, this defines her legal status. However, this negative and shameful status is not enough for her. It seems that she, with her provocative activities, claims criminal liability and obtaining the status of an extremist. The proposal to deprive her of real estate in Russia and such as her traitors, in my opinion, deserves public discussion for making legislative and regulatory decisions. ”

In the first half of February, the Ministry of Justice included the singer in the register of foreign agents. Zemfira previously repeatedly spoke out critically about the "special military operation."

The director of the "Transition Theater" Vsevolod Lisovsky left the special receiver after two 15 days of arrests on charges of disobedience to the police and flew to Yerevan. In February, he was accused of disobedience to the police, and previously brought to administrative responsibility for posts on Facebook, since the “discredit” of the army was allegedly contained there (then it was fined 50 thousand rubles).

The fact that Lisovsky left Russia told his daughter.

The leader of the group "Leged!" Maxim Pokrovsky instructed the “discrediting of the army of the Russian Federation” (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to the publication in VK with a pacifist song that he escorted with a text, where the “special operation” is condemned in a fairly cautious form.

The case was considered by the Khoroshevsky district court of the city of Moscow. The administrative case was terminated due to the expiration of the statute of limitations (investigators recorded the violation in May last year, missing the three -month period of the statute of limitations for liability).

The publication on the social network is not deleted, but access to it is limited:

According to the same decision, several more resources have been subjected to blocking, four of which are still in the registry in the forbidden information, including two links from Sigma - this is the publication where researchers, artists, small publishers and cultural institutions publish their materials. Two other links also talk about the obstruction of the “special operations”, only set forth by Ukrainians.

The court in Khabarovsk fined 300 thousand rubles of street artist Maxim Smolnikov, known under the nickname Hadad .

The man was accused under the article on “justification of terrorism” (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) for a post on VKontakte from 2018, in which he commented on the undermining of the building of the Arkhangelsk UFSB Anarchist Zholobitsky. The prosecutor requested for the artist 5.5 years in prison. As a result, he was assigned a minimum possible punishment for this part of the article.

The paintings of the 77-year-old resident of St. Petersburg Elena Osipova , which the police withdrew from the city office of the Yabloko party, are checked for the initiation of a criminal case about the so-called "fakes" about the Russian army.

It is reported that 19 paintings were seized , in which, according to the police, there are “text inscriptions that probably contain false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”. The police began an audit on this subject and appointed a psychological-linguistic examination. It will end in August 2023.

Osipova is a personality known in St. Petersburg, she took part in protest promotions, using her paintings instead of posters. Thanks to social networks, she became known to the whole rune. Her photographs from street promotions often become protest memes or are used as illustrations for appropriate news.

Previously working on TNT, the stand-up comedian Ruslan Bely spoke out against the “special operation”, after which representatives of the Voronezh branch of the LDPR wrote a denunciation.

In one of his knockers, Bely said that his friend from Odessa serves in the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces, and he would not want him to shoot him from the mortar, saying "not everything is so clear, Ruslan."

In the same speech, he said that he himself did not want to “defend the interests of one person” (Putin), joked at the pro -government journalists and bloggers, and this video fell on the Internet, after which they complained about him in the UK.

The Moscow City Court removed the complaint about the verdict to the founder of the Ombudsman of the Police, Vladimir Vorontsov, sentenced to five years of a general regime colony.

On August 2, 2022, the Lublin court of Moscow found Vorontsov guilty of extortion, insulting a policeman, as well as the illegal production and circulation of pornographic materials (part 2 of article 163, article 319 and part 3 of article 242 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The creator of the telegram channel Ombudsman of the Police and the public of the same name on the VKontakte social network Vladimir Vorontsov wasarrested on May 8, 2020. Subsequently, he was charged with 14 different episodes under the articles “Insulting a representative of power” (Article 319 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), “extortion” (Article 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), “Illegal production and circulation of pornographic materials” (Article 242 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The prosecutor later abandoned ten episodes.

The Tver District Court of Moscow fined 50 thousand rubles of the People's Artist of Russia Dmitry Nazarov under Part 1 of Art. 20.3.3 Code of Administrative Offenses (public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of Russia).

The reason for this was several videos on YouTube, where the actor speaks out against the “special operation”. The defense has already appealed the fine.

In mid -January, Nazarova and his wife, Honored Artist of Russia Olga Vasilieva, was fired from the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov. The Moscow Komsomolets wrote that Nazarov was fired due to his public statements about hostilities in Ukraine, as well as the “anti-Russian sentiment” of the actor.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court canceled the decision of the Leninsky District Court on a fine to the director of the Museum of History of Yekaterinburg Igor Pushkarev under the article on the discrediting of the use of the Russian army.

Recall that at the end of January of this year, the Leninsky District Court found Igor Pushkarev guilty under Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (discrediting the use of the Russian army) for a post on the social network, posted on February 24, 2022. The court appointed a fine of 30 thousand rubles to the director of the Yekaterinburg Museum.

Today, March 22, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court considered an appeal to the decision of the district court. As a result, the decision of the court of first instance has been canceled. The production of the case against Igor Pushkarev was terminated.

The Primorsky District Court of Novorossiysk sentenced the blogger Askali Alibekov ( “Wild Paratrooper” ) by 1 year and two months of a maximum security colony for “re -discrediting the army of the Russian Federation”.

Alibekov is the author of the Wild Paratum YouTube channel, where he repeatedly made criticism of power, including laid out videos about Ukraine and Putin. These videos became the reason for the persecution of a blogger.

The prosecutor’s office approved the indictment in the case of the 62-year-old Petersburg publicist Yevgeny Bestuzhev , who is persecuted under the article on the spread of “fakes” about the Russian army based on political hatred (paragraph 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

The accusation believes that Bestuzhev, not being an expert in the field of political science and military affairs, from February 23 to March 30, 2022 posted 27 records on his VKontakte page. In them, under the guise of reliable messages, the investigation believes, fakes were presented on the use of the RF Armed Forces outside the country. Materials were transferred to the judge.

Pensioner Evgeny Bestuzhev by education of a shipbuilder, he is called a publicist and political analyst. The man emphasizes that he does not consider himself an activist, and all that he published is an expression of his impressions after the beginning of the “special operation”. Since November 10, he has been in custody.

In St. Petersburg, the photographer and the author of the Chronicle of Political History of Valentin Nikitchenko underwent an inspection of the home as part of an administrative case of “discrediting the army of the Russian Federation”. The security forces came to him and under the threat of breaking the door, forced to let him into the apartment.

As a result of the “inspection”, Nikitchenko seized all the equipment, as well as two photo albums with his photos. In one of them there were a photo from the exhibition of Elena Osipova, to which the police came and seized her paintings.

After the inspection, Nikitchenko was taken to the survey and issued an obligation for a turnout.

The photographer leads its own website Valenik.ru, on which in the format of the electronic museum leads the chronicle of the political life of the country and St. Petersburg. His last works are devoted to processes in "anti -spokeship" cases.

A criminal case was opened against the famous political scientist Abbas Galyamov under paragraph “d” of Part 2 of Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (the public distribution of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, committed by the motive for political hatred) due to last year’s interview with the YouTube channel “Groshi” (special project of the Ukrainian television channel 1+1).

As follows from the decision to initiate the case:

“Glalyamov at the time that was not specified in the investigation, being in an unreasonable place outside of Russia, using the non -installed technical device, distributed knowingly false information containing information about the use of the RF Armed Forces to destroy settlements and the killings of the civilian population in Buch and Kramatorsk.

Meanwhile, according to the official information of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the civilian population of Ukraine was not and is not an object of attacks for military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, any acts of violence or threat of violence are not allowed, attacks on a civilian population in the city of Buch and a missile strike at the railway station in Kramatorsk were not committed by Russian military personnel.

Thus, Gallamov, acting intentionally, based on political hatred, created a real threat of the formation of a false opinion among citizens about the goals and objectives of a special military operation, capable of entailing an unreasonable increase in social tension, which caused the harm of the Russian Federation. The relevant information was widespread to create a negative attitude to the actions of the RF Armed Forces and deny the official information of the Ministry of Defense. ”

The political scientist has been declared the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the wanted list. According to the village "D" of Part 2 of Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation faces up to 10 years in prison. In February 2023, the Ministry of Justice included him in the list of “foreign agents”.

Already almost the usual phenomenon was the news about the breakdown of the tour of certain artists whose public rhetoric is contrary to the fact that the authorities dictate.

In Rostov-on-Don, summer concerts of rock groups “Time Machine”, “DDT” and “Mumiy Troll” were canceled , whose leaders spoke on the Internet against “special operation”. In addition, one of the creators of the “Time Machine”-Andrei Makarevich-was recognized as a foreign agent, which in particular was indicated by some users in the Telegram channel of the Governor of the Rostov Region Vasily Golubev, and some claimed that the musician’s performance was unacceptable.

Later it became known that in the city the performances of Ani Lorak, Valery Meladze and Alexander Revva were canceled .

Describing, in general, the rejection of the tour and rock team and pop singers, the head of the city administration, Alexei Logvinenko, said that Rostov residents allegedly “do not accept” performances in the city of artists who do not support the “special operation” in Ukraine.

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While the trend remains the same - the persecution for the "discredit" of the army or "fakes" about it. After the adoption of the Law on Electronic A summons, human rights activists from the “network freedoms” warned that the call to evasion could also be a reason for holding accountable, therefore it would be quite expected if such statements are also added to our new Daijas.

First part: "Who was persecuted in March for words on the Internet: politicians and activists"

** Third part: “Who was persecuted for words in March: non -public Russians

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