Ban “right sector” will block sites and social networking accounts – RBC

Ban "right sector" will block sites and social networking accounts – RBC

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The proceedings raised privacy

The decision to recognize the Ukrainian nationalist extremist organization, albeit they are not acting on the territory of Russia, the Supreme Court issued on Monday examined the application of the Prosecutor General . The hearings were held behind closed doors in the hall-bunker on the fourth floor of the basement, as the case got “classified.” Literally an hour court examined the case file and the ruled. Representatives from now prohibited on the territory of Russian organizations at the meeting were not present, and prosecutors declined to comment to journalists.

The leaders of several Ukrainian radical right-wing organizations have become involved in criminal cases in the spring of this year, after the victory in the Ukraine opponents of President Viktor Yanukovych backbone of whom were representatives of right-wing forces. In March 2014, investigators opened a case against the leader of the “right sector” Dmitry Yarosh, UNA-UNSO leader Dmitry Korchinsky, as well as other prominent nationalists: the leaders of UNA-UNSO Igor Mazur Vladimir Hominy, founder of its military wing Valeri Bobrovich and one of the leaders and chairman of the opposition party “Freedom” Oleg Tyagnibok and his brother Andrew. All of them Russian Investigative Committee accuses them of creating or leading an armed gang (Cc 1 and 2 of Art. 209 of the Criminal Code) and participation in the fighting on the side of Chechen separatists in 1994-1995.

Also March Basmanny court in absentia capital Yarosh arrested for calling for extremist activities. According to investigators, on a page in a social network “right sector” has posted an appeal to the leader of the banned organization in Russia “Caucasus Emirate” Doku Umarov and encouraged to fight with the Russian authorities. Later, officials declared the motion that the page of the “right sector” has been hacked, and the message was removed.

Against all

Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self-Defense (UNA-UNSO) was founded in 1990, Soviet dissident and political activist Ukrainian Yuri Shuhevichem. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the independence of Ukraine UNA-UNSO has been actively fighting with pro-Russian moods: a few hundred fighters drove the organization with the “explanatory conversations” in the Crimea, in addition, visited Odessa and Kharkov. In the early 1990s, UNA-UNSO participated in a number of armed conflicts in the territory of the former USSR, fighting on the side of the separatists in Transnistria and Chechnya, but in the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict by supporting the country’s authorities. However, domestic nationalists never gained popularity. At the parliamentary elections March 27, 1994 UNA-UNSO provela parliament only one deputy, who was running on a single-mandate constituency.

Only the winter and spring of 2014, street nationalist movement in Ukraine again forced to talk about himself. Although nationalists in parliament since 2012, when the “Freedom” under the guidance of Tyahnybok received more than 10% of the vote, it is the radicals formed and led the militant groups that opposed the streets of Kiev Interior Ministry special forces. In the winter of 2014 several nationalist groups united in the movement “right sector”, the leader of which was Yarosh, previously headed the “Trident” Stepan Bandera. In March 2014, “the right sector” has become a party-based staffing UNA-UNSO, which had registered the party since 1997.

Another banned organization, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, was active from 1942 to 1956 and fought in WWII against the Soviet partisans and Polish troops and against Hitler’s forces and the Red Army. One of the commanders was UPA Shukhevych – the father of the founder of the UNA-UNSO. In September, the President of Ukraine Poroshenko said that the UPA fighters should get the status of “defenders of Ukraine” on a par with the veterans of the Great Patriotic War. The activities of any modern organization called UPA currently not known.

Dangerous Talk

According to the director of the analytical Center “Owl” Alexander Verkhovskiy, the decision of the Supreme Court has more political significance than practical. “Practical sense in that decision, not very much, as many do we have in Russia supporters’ right sector”? – Said RBC Verhovsky. – But if someone will speak publicly in support of, or on behalf of these organizations, it can be held criminally liable. ” In addition, the expert reminds, at any mention of these organizations in the media will need to report on what they found to be extremist.

The deputy director of the Center of Ukrainian and belorusistiki MSU Bogdan Bezpalko endorsed the decision of the Supreme Court. “This decision – in general prohibition on the promotion of Ukrainian nationalism in Russia. If earlier it was possible to rely on freedom of speech, now it will be limited, and propagate this ideology has become illegal, “- explains Bezpalko. According to him, on the basis of this decision can block resources and pages activists in social networks.

The publication of information about the “right quadrant” turns fraught with problems for the media and without a court order. Thus, in March 2014 on the basis of an interview with the publication of one of the leaders of the “right sector” Andrei Tarasenko, which contained a reference to one of the performances Yarosh, Roscomnadzor issued a warning to the publication Lenta.ru, then on the same day the owner was dismissed its chief editor Timchenko. In May Roscomnadzor blocked access to the pages of the “right sector” social networks “VKontakte” and Twitter.