Censorship in Russia

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Chapters: Bhagavad Gita trial in Russia, Bureau of Censorship (Russian Empire), Censorship in the Russian Empire, Dmitry Buturlin, Federal List of Extremist Materials, Ingushetia.org, List of journalists killed in Russia, On Protecting Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development, Roskomnadzor, Russian government censorship of Chechnya coverage, Yota. Excerpt: The Bhagavad Gita trial in Russia or the Bhagavad Gita court case in Russia was the trial of the Russian edition of Bhagavad Gita As It Is initiated in June 2011 by the state prosecutor's office in Tomsk, Russia on charges of religious extremism, based on an assessment of the book by scholars of Tomsk State University, which concluded that Bhaktivedanta Swami's translations and commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita incite religious, social, and racial intolerance. At the first hearing the federal judge Galina Butenko found the Tomsk University assessment inadequate and commissioned another assessment from Kemerovo State University, postponing the verdict until December 28, 2011. In mid-December 2011 the trial caused a storm of highly critical publications and comments in the Indian, Russian, and international media, as well as on social networks. The outrage was followed by a groundswell of multi-partisan political support in the Indian Parliament and an official statement by the Indian External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna, harshly criticizing the proposed ban as "patently absurd" undertaking of "ignorant and misdirected or motivated individuals". The overwhelmingly wide negative response to the trial forced Russian officials to offer apologies to India, promising the necessary remedial measures to prevent the ban. The trial also sparked public protests and legal actions in India against the proposed ban and drew harsh criticism of the intellectual community in Russia. Leading Russian scholars publicly denounced the perpetuation of the trial, appealing to President Dmitry Medvedev and Premier Vladimir Putin for intervention and warning them of the trial's negative consequences for India-Russia relations and for Russia's international reputation. On December 28, 2011, the judge dismissed the court case, a decision lauded by the communities both in India and Russia. On January 26, 2012, the Tomsk prosecutor's office filed an appeal against the judge's ruling, but on Ma