I’m holding the expert report in my hands and laughing, but I have to admit: it says nothing but the plain truth.
You remember, of course, that all across the country the police and the FSB (Russia’s Federal Security Service) have been trying to seize our leaflets, claiming they are “extremist” and “need to be checked.”
Well, they checked them. The first expert assessment came from the city of Oryol, where the raid on our headquarters took place on July 5.
To conduct the assessment, they took everything—from banners to leaflets.
They carefully examined all the supposedly alarming phrases, like “Putin’s friends should be tried in a fair court”:
And the conclusions are wonderful:
There is no extremism.
There are no grounds for police proceedings or seizures.
The groups of persons “Vladimir Putin,” “Dmitry Medvedev,” and “Putin’s friends” are evaluated negatively.
Absolutely true. We assess Putin, Medvedev, and Putin’s friends negatively—very negatively, in fact.
If you assess them negatively too, then join us, become a volunteer, and help us distribute our wonderful non-extremist materials.
P.S. The expert assessment in Veliky Novgorod also found no extremism.