Boris Vishnevsky asked the Investigative Committee of Russia to check Timofei Sergeytsev’s article entitled “What Russia should do to Ukraine” for violation of the legal norms banning inciting hatred and calls for unleashing an aggressive war
Press Release, 6.04.2022
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky/ Photo by the Press Service of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Boris Vishnevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party and an MP of the Legislative Assembly of St.Petersburg, believes that the publication by Timofei Sergeytsev’s entitled “What Russia should do to Ukraine” violates two articles of the Criminal Code at once: Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred) and Article 354 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (calling for unleashing an aggressive war).
“I understand everything about our law enforcement system. But if this article is not Nazism, then what is Nazism then? Let the Investigative Committee give me an answer in legal language. Let them try to say that the poster “No to War” is impossible, but such [publication] is possible. We can’t leave it like that,” Boris Vishnevsky commented on his statement.
On 3 April, Timofei Sergeytsev published an article on the website of the state news agency RIA Novosti entitled “What should Russia do to Ukraine?”. The article runs that it is necessary to conduct long-term “denazification” of the Ukrainian civilian population as “passive accomplices of Nazism”, completely destruct the Armed Forces of Ukraine as “Nazi formations” and liquidate Ukraine in principle as a state.
BORIS VISHNEVSKY
is Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party, member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee and Bureau, and an MP of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Posted: April 7th, 2022 under Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.