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Presidential Human Rights Council Asks Prosecutors to Look Into Pro-kremlin Youth Group Activity

MOSCOW. Oct 10 (Interfax) - The Russian presidential civil society and human rights council has officially asked the Prosecutor General's Office to look into pickets that the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi has been placing near the house where the journalist Alexander Podrabinek's family lives.

"Being consistent in its commitment to supremacy of law, the council has forwarded documentary evidence of numerous violations of Russian law by the youth group Nashi during the pickets to the prosecutor general," Ella Pamfilova, the head of the presidential civil society and human rights council, told Interfax on Saturday.

"These violations go far beyond the limits of the regulations regarding the organization of pickets. I believe that impartial prosecution analysis will not be hampered by an outrageous informational campaign unleashed by Nashi and those trying to excuse their actions," Pamfilova said.

Nashi activists have been picketing Podrabinek's house after he published an article titled 'As an Anti-Soviet to Anti-Soviets' on a web publication, which, in Nashi's view, insulted WWII veterans. Nashi have also filed a libel lawsuit against Podrabinek.


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