The leader of the Yabloko faction in the Tomsk City Duma asked to check for incitement of hatred the statements of the State Duma MP from the LDPR faction about the Ukrainian language and state
Press Release, 6.06.2023
Photo: Vasily Yeryomin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Vasily Yeryomin, head of the Yabloko faction in the City Duma of Tomsk, asked the Public Prosecutor’s Office to check Alexei Didenko, an MP of the State Duma elected from the Tomsk region, in view of his statement about the need to destroy the Ukrainian state and language, according to the Telegram channel “TV2. News of Tomsk and Siberia”.
“I would like to turn to the public prosecutors: is this not inciting ethnic hatred? I ask you to investigate and prosecute Alexei Nikolaevich Didenko under this article of the Criminal Code,” Vasily Yeryomin said at a meeting of the City Duma.
The TV2 information portal informs that the LDPR deputy, who was born in Ukraine, said that the Ukrainian language was the “language of the enemy”, and only military translators should be allowed to study it. He also added that the Ukrainian state should not exist.
Posted: June 7th, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.