“Хэт даврагч” шинжтэй тэмдэг ашигласан гэх үндэслэлээр ОХУ-ын Төрийн думын сонгуульд нэр дэвших эрхийг нь хассан байна.
ОХУ-ын Сонгуулийн төв хороо даваа гарагт Коммунист намаас нэр дэвшигч Николай Бондаренког ирэх сонгуульд оролцохыг хориглох шийдвэр гаргалаа. Түүнийг өмнө нь олон нийтийн сүлжээнд “хэт даврагч” шинжтэй тэмдэг ашигласан хэргээр буруутгаж, торгууль ногдуулсан нь ийнхүү сонгуульд өрсөлдөх эрхгүй болох үндэслэл болжээ. Оросын сонгуулийн хуулийн дагуу “хэт даврагч”-ийн гэмт хэрэгт холбогдсон иргэн нэг жилийн хугацаанд төрийн албанд нэр дэвших эрхгүй байдаг.
Бондаренкогийн хуулийн багийнхан тухайн постыг түүний хувийн хаягаас нийтлээгүй гэж маргасан боловч шүүх давж заалдах гомдлыг нь өнгөрсөн долоо хоногт хэрэгсэхгүй болгосон байна. Коммунист нам энэхүү шийдвэрийг эрх баригчид Бондаренкогийн нөлөөллөөс “айж буйтай” холбон тайлбарлаж, эсэргүүцлээ илэрхийлэв.
Саратов мужийн хууль тогтоох байгууллагын гишүүн асан, YouTube суваг дээр хоёр сая гаруй дагагчтай Бондаренко нь 2018 оны тэтгэврийн шинэчлэлийг шүүмжилснээр олонд танигдсан улс төрч юм. Тэрээр өмнө нь 2022 онд YouTube сувгийнхаа орлогыг мэдүүлээгүй гэх үндэслэлээр бүс нутгийн парламентын суудлаасаа хасагдаж байв.
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The Central Election Commission on Monday barred Communist Party candidate Nikolai Bondarenko from running in Russia’s upcoming parliamentary elections following his recent convictionfor displaying “extremist” symbols.
Bondarenko, a former Saratov regional lawmaker and popular YouTuber with more than 2 million subscribers, was detained and fined last month over an old social media post featuring a photo of the late opposition activist Alexei Navalny.
His defense team argued that the account that made the post does not belong to Bondarenko. A judge rejected an appeal against the ruling and fine last week.
On Monday, election officials, citing the “extremism” charge, voted to remove Bondarenko from the ballot in this month’s State Duma elections.
Russian election laws prohibit anyone convicted of an “extremism” offense from running for office for a year.
In a statement, the Communist Party accused officials of blocking Bondarenko’s election bid because they are “afraid.”
Bondarenko rose to national fame through his fiery, unfiltered attacks against Russia’s deeply unpopular 2018 pension reforms.
During his tenure in the Saratov regional assembly from 2017 to 2021, he built a large social media following through theatrical political stunts, including a viral experiment where he tried to survive on a monthly pension of 3,500 rubles ($52).
His populist rhetoric, savvy use of social media and diatribes against the ruling United Russia party earned him high praise from Navalny, who once dubbed Bondarenko his “favorite” regional lawmaker.
Bondarenko was stripped of his seat in the Saratov regional assembly in 2022 after state prosecutors claimed he failed to declare ad revenues and user donations generated through his popular YouTube channel.
His disqualification from the upcoming State Duma election follows a series of similar cases in which potential candidates have faced charges that effectively bar them from office.
On Monday, the chairman of the liberal Yabloko party in Yekaterinburg was also detained and charged overdisplaying “extremist” symbols in old social media posts, the newspaper Kommersant reported.
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