The Rostov branch of Roskomnadzor considered that in the quote from the letter of the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, published in the media about the poetry of Prosodia, there is an obscene word equivalent to "bastard". The court session on the appeal of the regulator will be held on February 21. Vladimir Kozlov, editor-in-chief of the magazine, spoke about this post on Facebook. But experts believe that the classic could use such a word, but modern media cannot. In a social media post, Kozlov talks about the situation. The editor-in-chief of Prosodia said: the department considered that in one of the publications of the magazine, a quote from a letter from the writer Ivan Turgenev to publicist Alexander Herzen contained obscene language. The message was dedicated to the publication of a poetry collection by the 19th century poet Stepan Shevyrev.
“Further - references to a number of dictionaries proving that this word must be unambiguously classified as obscene. Fines threaten not only the editor-in-chief of prosodia.ru [Sergey Medvedev. - note. ], but also the non-profit organization that manages the project,” he wrote. Kozlov believes that the fines that they can be awarded will be "unbearable."
The editor-in-chief of the magazine explained his public coverage of the situation. Kozlov claims that the Roskomnadzor statement says that the editors did not give any explanations. But, the journalist assures, representatives of Prosodia called the supervising employee of the department, and Kozlov and Medvedev sent "official letters to the mail specified in the department."
“Having received the protocol, I dialed Roskomnadzor and asked: how is it? They told me that they didn’t receive anything,” Kozlov, who is also the head of the Center for the Study of Contemporary Poetry of the Southern Federal University, is indignant.
Therefore, he decided to cite an excerpt from the response to the regulator on the social network. The editors urged the authorities to take into account that “prosodia.ru is an educational project about Russian poetry that works for an 18+ audience, which is notified on the site.”
Kozlov clarified that the word "bastard" means "illegitimate child", its synonym is the word from the quote, which the RKN considered obscene. The letter to the editors clarifies that earlier the word was not considered obscene and "in the 19th century it was used in the same sense as the word" bastard ", containing the same root." As confirmation, Kozlov claims that Vladimir Dahl's dictionary reports this.
“The word “bastard” has never been recognized as obscene, despite the fact that it contains a root prohibited by Roskomnadzor. We ask the court to take these circumstances into account when making its decision. Prosodia would by no means want to sow abuse, but it’s rather strange to protect people aged 18+ from the judgments of the classics, ”Kozlov notes, publishing a quote from the editorial office, whose leaders promised to “be more careful in the future.”
Kozlov called the situation "funny, but very serious".
In a comment, Associate Professor of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian State Humanitarian University Tatyana Bazzina recalled that the federal law clearly sets out the words that refer to obscene vocabulary: “male genital organ, female genital organ, woman or girl of reduced social behavior, the verb of coition and derivatives of these words.” Bazzina noted that she knows "another set of words that are considered obscene." “But they can be consumed in accordance with the law, they are not listed in it,” added the associate professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities.
And the word, which the RKN considered obscene, falls under the law. “This is a derivative of those words that cannot be spoken. In its purest form. It was necessary to censor: either “star”, or just put three dots. Even though it is a classic, it is not used in newspaper and magazine pages,” she stressed, taking the side of the RKN, whose actions are “absolutely adequate and appropriate.”
“You need to understand what words you use, even though these are the words of a classic. You can do classics, you can't. The law did not apply to the classics, but it does apply to you. It's a fundamentally different word [compared to "bastard". - note. ],” the expert emphasized.
Doctor of Philology Lyudmila Savenkova draws attention to the fact that the word used by Turgenev is not in many dictionaries, which may be due to its obscene language. “From Dahl's dictionary - this is the middle of the 19th century - this word has been removed. It is also not in Fasmer's etymological dictionary, therefore, in the 19th century it could already be considered obscene. In the dictionary of the Russian language of the XI-XVII centuries, this word is, it really means a child born out of wedlock. But even then it was also used as a swear word, ”she said in a comment to RBC Rostov.
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