FSB shut down Leonid Kaganov’s website for anti-Semitism

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Federal Security Service closed the site of Leonid Kaganov for a cited anti-Semitic poem in a publication two years ago.

For over 15 years, it has been the site Kaganova lleo.aha.ru . It opened in 1996 and therefore was considered one of the oldest.

In 2009, Leonid Kaganov quoted in his diary an anti-Semitic poem by a certain “citizen Chipizubov G. M.,” which the Angarsk city court recognized as “extremist.” In that record, Kaganov was surprised at the existence of a federal list of banned literature and asked some legal questions.

This spring, the FSB became interested in this entry and turned to the provider, who gave Kaganov an oral warning. Kaganov “removed extremist material from that page, replacing it with a parody of his own composition that was similar in meaning”.

Another two months passed and the order came from the FSB to the provider to remove the page. And already this Saturday, Kaganov discovered that he no longer had a site. The publication of extremist materials from the federal list does not require a court decision by law, and by this order of the FSB any Russian provider is obliged to close the site.

As Kaganov himself notes, the irony is that he "lost his native site for quoting a rhyme that helps fuel ethnic hatred for himself." But he was given the opportunity to copy the data, and is now placed in the website of Germany at lleo.me .

As for one of his most famous web projects - the “official site of the symbolic direction”, located at lleo.aha.ru/na/ , Kaganov handed it to Evgeny Nenaglyadov, and his new address was natribu.org .