The Izmailovsky Court of Moscow accepted Boris Vishnevsky’s complaint against the Ministry of Internal Affairs because of their inaction to MP Gurulyov’s phrase about the “rotten” 20 per cent of population who disagree with Putin and therefore must be destroyed
Press Release, 19.01.2024
Photo: MP Gurulyov, a screenshot of the programme “Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov”
The Izmailovsky Court of Moscow accepted for consideration the complaint of the Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, Boris Vishnevsky, about the inaction of the Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which did not reveal violations of the law in the statements of State Duma deputy Andrei Gurulyov. The first court hearing is scheduled for 26 January.
The complaint runs that the body of inquiry – the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Eastern Administrative District of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow, to which the Public Prosecutor General’s Office forwarded Vishnevsky’s application, evaded conducting a pre-investigation check. They simply reported that they had not found any violations of the law on countering extremist activities in the words of MP Gurulyov. Boris Vishnevsky considered this answer to be unmotivated and lacking any justification and applied to court.
“I believe that the inhumane and clearly illegal calls of MP Andrei Gurulyov are aimed not just at inciting hatred based on political enmity, but at undermining a number of provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation,” the Deputy Chairman of Yabloko stressed.
It should be noted that on 15 October, 2023, State Duma deputy Andrei Gurulyov, speaking live on the programme “Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov,” said that, in his opinion, President Vladimir Putin is supported by 80% of the population, noting the following about the remaining 20%: “…for all this rot that remains, it must be, if not isolated, then at least somehow destroyed”.
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: January 19th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Russia-Ukraine relations, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.