For Opposing the “Navalny Group” The head of the Russian Interior Ministry’s Kirov Region department awarded two members of the department’s Public Council for their active propaganda work against the actions of the “Navalny group.”
20.06.2013 Since the start of the Kirovles trial in Kirov, more than 130,000 copies of propaganda literature have been seized. At today’s meeting of the Public Council under the Russian Interior Ministry’s Kirov Region department, Kirov police chief Sergei Solodovnikov said that during the Kirovles trial in Kirov, police officers together with the regional FSB office seized more than 130,000 copies of literature (leaflets, newspapers, and brochures) containing anti-state slogans. He also awarded certificates of honor to Council members, lawyer Sergei Noskov and Yuri Kovalenko, first deputy chairman of the Kirov regional branch of the nationwide public organization “Union of Machine Builders of Russia,” for actively opposing the “Navalny group.” “I am very grateful, and I would like to draw attention to the support of those Public Council members who took the most active part in the counter-propaganda effort against the actions of the Navalny group,” said Sergei Solodovnikov. “We have two members of the Public Council—Sergei Vasilyevich Noskov and Yuri Alexandrovich Kovalenko—who, without regard for their personal time and, it seems to me, with a firm conviction in the correctness of the government’s position, worked with those anti-state individuals who are trying to promote their utterly incomprehensible policy of sowing discord in society...” http://bnkirov.ru/articles/8074 First of all, this is just outrageous. They might as well go all the way and call it the “c*riminal Navalny group” right away. The newspaper was formally seized for expert examination, not because it was extremist. By the way, we had the first court hearing on that issue today. Second, it’s outrageous because they’re handing out awards to each other “for active propaganda work,” when in reality all that amounts to is two or three miserable Nashi activists (pro-Kremlin youth movement members), getting spat at by passersby, standing opposite our picket with an agit-cube.
(this is what a picket with agit-cubes looks like) These Nashi activists suffer terribly and are always trying to slip home early, before the court session ends. As soon as their supervisor shows up and pays them, they vanish without a trace. So much for “active propaganda work.” Third, let me remind you that each of us can chip in a few hundred rubles to publish our newspaper in our own region, the one pursuing an “incomprehensible policy of sowing discord in society”. We fully intend to go on spreading discord and hatred toward the social group known as “crooks and thieves.” We have already distributed more than half a million copies.