Russia (bbabo.net), - On February 2, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office to recognize the Columbine movement as terrorist in our country and agreed with the position of the oversight agency.

Consideration of the administrative claim was held behind closed doors. After the Supreme Court agreed with the opinion of the Attorney General's Office, the posting of calls for actions like "Columbine" or their repost will be considered by our law enforcement agencies as a preparation of terrorist acts.

In this case, public statements justifying massacres will also fall under the scope of the propaganda of terrorism article.

All investigations of shootings in our educational institutions in recent years have shown that those who took up arms did not just know what Columbine was. They were his admirers and followers. Until yesterday, until February 2, the creators of Columbine communities and citizens who post such information on their social media accounts risked trouble only from Roskomnadzor. According to his calculations, it is Roskomnadzor that registers up to 300 such cases per year in our country. And this figure had a noticeable upward trend.

Recall that the word - "Columbine" appeared afterrible state of emergency - a massacre in an American school in 1999. The school was called Columbine. Then two of her students armed themselves and went to kill other students. They were able to kill 13 people, another 23 people were injured. After the massacre in many countries, including ours, communities began to appear on social networks of supporters of the organizers of the massacre. They were not so much reminded of the events in the American school as they created a cult of worship for those who went with weapons to deal with real and imaginary grievances in educational institutions.

After the massacre in the United States, societies of supporters of the organizers began to appear in many countries

I must say that our legislators in the State Duma adopted a law back in 2018 on measures to combat the creators of the so-called Columbine communities that promote violence on social networks.

Based on this law, Roskomnadzor organized work to block prohibited information. In 2020-2021, more than 750 links were added to the registry of prohibited information on the Columbine topic.

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