Roskomnadzor issued a warning to the newspaper RBC – RBC

Roskomnadzor issued a warning to the newspaper RBC – RBC

Photo: Yekaterina Kuzmina / RBC

Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) January 26 issued a warning to the daily business newspaper RBC. From the text document that claims departments related to article “Tell reporters that it was” Al-Qaeda “, published in the newspaper RBC January 15, 2015 (№4 (2021).

The newspaper” illustrated above material image (picture), insulting religious feelings of Muslims, inciting religious hatred “, – said in the warning.

It also says that incitement to religious hatred is subject to the law” On Countering Extremist Activity »(№114-FZ ), which prohibits the dissemination through the mass media of extremist materials.

«We have not published the cartoons, and the image of the stack with the issue of the magazine Charlie Hebdo, released a record with a circulation of 3 million copies, and what we wanted to inform our readers – said a spokesman for the holding RBC Zlata Nikolaeva. – Our lawyers are studying the situation for our future actions. “In the photo, which attracted the attention of Roskomnadzor, shows a stack of magazines Charlie Hebdo with the first issue published in France January 14, 2015 – a week after the attack, which has undergone revision edition. Then in his office were shot 12 people.

Roskomnadzor, according to the document on the website of the department, issued the editors and founder of the newspaper RBC “written warning about the inadmissibility of the use of mass media for extremist activities.” The basis for the issuance of the warning agency called art. 8 of the Law “On Countering Extremist Activity» (№114-FZ) and p. 6 of Article 10 of the Law “On Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information» (№149-FZ).

According to the first rate, warning can be contested in court. If the court does not recognize the warning illegal, and the media does not take measures to eliminate the violations or within one year from the date of warning allow new violations, the activities of publication could “be subject to termination.” Article of the Law “On Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information”, which refers to Roskomnadzor, prohibits the dissemination of information aimed at including incitement of religious hatred, for which “provides for criminal or administrative liability».

In addition to newspaper RBC received warnings January 26 edition of “VKpress”, “Age”, “Internovosti.ru”, “Lenizdat.ru” and Kurier-media.ru.

Roscomnadzor previously conducted outreach with publications, warning them about the inadmissibility of violations of the legislation of the Russian Federation and inciting sectarian strife, said RBC representative office, Vladimir Ampelonsky. According to him, a number of publications has not listened to the explanations of departments and were issued an official warning. Explanations on “the cartoons on religious themes” have been published on the website Roskomnadzora January 16, ie on the day after publication in the newspaper RBC.