FSB closed Leonid Kaganov’s website for anti-Semitism

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

For 15 years, Kaganov had a website lleo.aha.ru. It opened in 1996 and therefore was considered one of the oldest.
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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 prohibited literature and asked some legal questions.

In the spring of this year, the FSB became interested in this record and turned to the provider, who gave oral warning to Kaganov. Kaganov "removed from that page extremist material, replacing it with a similar parody of his own composition."

Two more months passed and an order came to the provider from the FSB to remove the page. And this Saturday, Kaganov discovered that he no longer has a website. Publication of extremist materials from the federal list does not, by law, require a court decision, and according to such an order of the FSB, any Russian provider is obliged to close the site.

As Kaganov himself notes, the irony lies in the fact that he “lost his native website for quoting a rhyme contributing to inciting ethnic hatred towards himself.” But he was given the opportunity to copy the data and now the site is located in 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/ , then Kaganov handed it to Yevgeny Nenagladov, and his new address is natribu.org .