The fight against dissent (extremism) in Russia is gaining a form of idiocy, typical for this country.
According to Russian mass media, on March 16, 2010,a deputy prosecutor of Samara region Zatsepin appealed to Sergei Bystrevskiy, the acting local head in the Russian of Ministry Justice in Samara region, demanding to stop violating the extremism-fighting laws.
During the monitoring conducted by the prosecutor's office of the region, it was established that the official website of the governance of the Russian Ministry of Justice in Samara region contains active internet links to web-sites which in their turn contain information materials recognized as extremist by court decisions.
It violates articles 3, 4 of the Russian law entitled "Countermeasures to extremist activities". "Acquaintance with informational materials which are recognized as extremist may promote the propagation of extremist activities and stir extremist discord"- reports the Samara region prosecutor's office on its web-site.
It should be mentioned you that Ministry of Justice regularly publishes and updates the Russian List of Prohibited Literature (Index Librorum Prohibitorum) which is contains books_ newspapers and magazines forbidden for reading by Russian citizens. The list includes now some 500 items (several American books are among them) and is regularly supplemented with about 20 items per month
Department of monitoring,
Kavkaz Center
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