And laughter, and sin: the Russians decided to question because of the citation of “dunno”

Man accused of “inciting hatred of the police”.

In the Krasnodar region of Russia the local public “Radical dreamers” the social network “Vkontakte” Mikhail Malakhov was summoned for questioning to the Supervisory authority, suspected of extremism by publishing the screenshot of the excerpt from the book by the famous children’s writer Nikolay Nosov “dunno on the moon”.

As told Russian journalists Malakhov himself, he called the police and reported that he received a complaint because of the incitement of hatred against a social group – the police, which falls under article 282 of the criminal code.

The post that caused, according to the blogger, questions the Prosecutor’s office, was published in public on 28 March 2017. It posted a page from the 31st Chapter, published in 1964 the book Nosov “dunno on the moon”. In the passage the characters of Herring, Cog and Spike discuss the police. Spike calls them “bandits,” who, instead of protecting the population from robbers, “only protect the rich”.

Internet users are vigorously discussing the event in social networks:

“When the FSB know that Nikolay Nosov was born in Kiev and grew up in Irpin, then “dunno on the moon” will be extremist literature”;

“When Russia was true of Kafka, Orwell, Pelevin, Sorokin, Voinovich was funny, but when I pass “dunno on the moon” and “Cipollino” was scared”;

“Lifehack: If you call the police for quotes “dunno on the moon”, say N. Nosov wrote about Catalonia”.

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