Russia and five CIS countries agreed on the prompt exchange of data on extremist charges, including cases involving “rehabilitation of Nazism”. The agreement was signed by the prosecutors general of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan at the 36th meeting of the Coordinating Council of Prosecutors General of the CIS member states.
The document provides for the prompt exchange of information about organizations that the authorities consider “terrorist” and “extremist”, as well as about encroachments on state sovereignty and possible terrorist attacks. In the agreement, the parties expressed concern about the spread of terrorism and extremism, including those related to “rehabilitation of Nazism”, and called it a threat to security, as well as political, economic, and social stability.
At the 36th meeting of the Coordinating Council of Prosecutors General of the CIS member states, the Russian Federation Prosecutor General Alexander Gutsan thanked his colleagues for their attention to Russian requests for legal assistance. According to him, this made it possible this year to seize assets in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan belonging to individuals accused of large-scale embezzlement and tax crimes, as well as to identify such assets in Mongolia, Bulgaria, and Spain.
On September 11, the Telegram channel ASTRA reported that in the Volgograd region, a married couple was charged under the article on “rehabilitation of Nazism” because of a sports video filmed six years ago on the grounds of the Soldier’s Field memorial complex. In July, the same article was used to investigate a blogger who threw 5,000 rubles into the water near a military memorial in Volgograd.
In June, two girls in St. Petersburg were sentenced to two years in a penal settlement in a case involving desecration of state symbols and “rehabilitation of Nazism” for a video showing them urinating on a Russian passport and exposing themselves against the backdrop of posters for May 9. A few days earlier, historian and Honored Teacher of Russia Tamara Eidelman was sentenced in absentia to 8 years in a penal colony in a case involving “rehabilitation of Nazism” and the spread of military “fakes”; the reason for the prosecution was her lecture “Conversations About Important Things: The Day of the Stolen Victory”.
The founder of the “Immortal Barrack” project, Andrey Shalaev, was put on the wanted list in Russia under the same article.
