Yevgeny Stupin, deputy of the Moscow City Duma from the Communist Party faction, of the Investigative Committee didn’t check statements by the leading RT TV channel Anton Krasovsky about Ukrainian children in one of its broadcasts He insisted “burn and burn”
Stupin sent an appeal to the Moscow Investigative Committee with a request to check Krasovsky’s words for a possible violation of the legislation of the Russian Federation. The ministry replied to the parliamentarian that there was no information on the “committed or impending crime” in the appeal:
“In the petition of appeal received, there is no information about the crime committed or being prepared against minors. There are no problems that fall under the jurisdiction of the Main Investigative Committee of the Russian Investigative Committee for the city of Moscow, ”says the letter, the contents of which the deputy published. telegraph channel. Stupin was told that the investigators would send his request to the Moscow department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
“The material was first left to the Moscow department, then forwarded to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which allegedly had no jurisdiction of the RF Investigative Committee! In other words, he did not incite enmity and discord with his calls!!” Stupin wrote.
“[Я] He wrote his statement on bringing Krasovsky to criminal responsibility. It is unclear what kind of instruction the Commission of Inquiry sent to the Ministry of Interior. What operational search activities should be conducted in this situation? Looking for Krasovsky? So it is not hidden. Or the kids he calls to choke?
I will ask the prosecutor’s office to intervene, ”the deputy of the Moscow City Duma concluded.
On October 24, Russia Today editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan announced that she was “suspending cooperation” with Anton Krasovsky, who served as the broadcasting director of the channel, due to statements she made in an interview with writer Sergei Lukyanenko. In particular, in the program “Contradictions” Krasovsky said that Ukrainian children who believed that their country was “occupied by the Moscow people” should be “beaten or strangled because they were burned in the Smerekov hut.”
TFR head Alexander Bastrykin instructed an RT employee to check their statements.
Simonyan described this situation as “confusion” and also wished the children of Ukraine and Donbass “to end the conflict as soon as possible so that they can peacefully receive education in the language they regard as their mother tongue”. The TV presenter later apologized separately to “anyone who was stunned by this” and RT’s editor-in-chief.
Krasovsky’s statements can be considered within the framework of Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Public appeal for extremist activities using the media”). According to current Russian legislation, extremist activities include, among other things, “inciting racial, national or religious hatred, as well as social hatred associated with violence or calls for violence”.
Such acts are punishable by imprisonment for up to five years of forced labor or deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for the same period of three years, according to the Criminal Code of Russia.