Wow, George Soros has some powerful mojo. Russian law has an automatic investigation of complaints - file a complaint it has to be investigated - Canada has such a law too. This fringe party has found a way to use the legal mechanisim to gain some publicity which fuels the Soros financed/influenced disinfo news beast.
I posted a story about a month ago about Russian prosecutor investigating a book of stories and poems by Pushkin because they were erotic - some one or some group saw this book for sale at a book store and filed a complaint. The prosecutor has no flexibility in the matter - his office has to investigate.
26 posted on 01/30/2005 7:28:44 PM PST by Destro
I am against all censorship - but this is a tale taken by the western press to illustrate that Putin is turning Russia into a police state. Just like in the USA when the FCC gets a complaint - the Russian authorities probably got a complaint and thus have to open an investigation.
Our own FCC for example had to investigate NBC's opening ceremonies of the Athens Olympics because some yahoos were offended by reproductions of naked Greek statues and writhing Greek dancers.
Someone probably purchased the book and read the following and called the authorities.
There is a disinfo campaign out there to turn people against Russia be bringing up old Cold War imagry like Pushkin is being banned or something.
Thank you for that information!
How does the investigation of Pushkin have anything to do with this and disinformation?
You claim there is something "inflexible" in prosecution once some random group complains, but that does not mitigate this from the story:
"The probe was launched after some 500 public figures, including members of the Nationalist Rodina Party, in a letter to the prosecutor’s office urged to outlaw the Jewish religion and all its organisations operating in Russia, daily Ha'aretz reported."
Further did I miss the historical context of Russian pogroms and purges of Pushkin lovers?
And how is the apparatus of prosecutorial rules which enable censorship supposed to be a comfort to critics who claim Russian backsliding?
This Pushkin story has no relationship to disinformation or anti-Semitism.