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Russia Opens First Case Under Law Punishing Online Searches for 'Extremist' Content

Summary by The Moscow Times
Authorities in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region have launched the first known case under a new law that penalizes online searches for extremist materials, local media reported.

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The resident of Kamenska-Oral Sergei Glukhnyh was given a report on the search for extremist materials, and is told by Itxas My City...

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The police in the Sverdlovsk region drew up an administrative report under the article “Search for deliberately extremist materials” (13.53 of the Administrative Code) against a resident of Kamensk-Uralsky, ITʼs My City reported on November 6.

·Riga, Latvia
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The first administrative case for deliberately searching for extremist materials on the Internet was opened against a 20-year-old resident of the Sverdlovsk Region. The information was provided to the FSB by an unnamed telecom operator, Sergei Barsukov, the defendant's lawyer, said in a conversation with “Be careful, news”.

·Moscow, Russian Federation
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In Kamensk-Uralski, a 20-year-old medical officer drew up a report on "the search for known extremist material" (art. 13.53 of the CoA), writing It's my City with reference to Sergei Barsukov's lawyer. According to a lawyer, a young man came across information about the Azov regiment and the Russian Volunteer Corps on the Internet, then reported to the FSB by a communications operator.

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The FSB's search was reported by the communications operator

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