روسيا: شاعر يذكي العنصرية بقصيدة تسيء لمسلمي القوقاز

يواجه الشاعر الروسي "فسيفولود يميلين" السجن خمس سنوات ودفع غرامة تبلغ 17 ألف و 400 دولار إذا ما ثبتت إدانته بتهمة إثارة الكراهية العنصرية، عقب قيامه بنظم قصيدة يصف فيها المصادمات العنيفة التي وقعت بين المواطنين الروس ومسلمي شمال القوقاز.

وقد أساء الشاعر الروسي للأقلية المسلمة في قصيدته التي يصف فيها المصادمات التي وقعت قرب "الكرملين" ديسمبر الماضي، واتهمهم بالاعتداء على الروس وسفك دمائهم؛ لهتافهم بالمجد لـ"فلاديمير بوتين" مما اعتبرته الشرطة تصعيدًا للنزاع العرقي بين الجانبين. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Poet Fears Jail Over Manezh Riot Rhyme

A Moscow poet said he faced ethnic hatred charges after being summoned to police headquarters Tuesday "for a chat" about a poem describing December rioting near the Kremlin.

Vsevolod Yemelin, a well-known modern poet in the Russian blogosphere, could be fined 500,000 rubles ($17,400) and jailed for five years if charged and convicted of inciting ethnic hatred with "Poetic Feuilleton," a poem published on his LiveJournal blog that critics say supports ultranationalists.

The poem's closing lines read: "Meanwhile the Caucasus natives knife Russians at all crossroads/And shoot them dead with a gun/The more they shoot, the louder they shout, "Glory to Putin!"

Yemelin said police were looking into a complaint from a resident from the Kabardino-Balkaria republic.

"The issue is a Kabardino-Balkaria resident who didn't like the content of my poem has requested that a criminal case be opened on charges of inciting ethnic hatred," Yemelin said, according to RIA-Novosti.

Yemelin has written two poems about the rioting of some 5,000 nationalists on Manezh Square in December. The protesters were demanding justice after an ethnic Russian football fan was killed during a clash with North Caucasus natives earlier that month. The other poem, titled "Once Again About Tenderness," was published in the Perm-based Sol magazine.

Yemelin said he did not receive official, written summons but an informal invitation by telephone. Even though the law doesn't oblige people to obey informal phone calls from the police, Yemelin said he decided to go anyway. "Farewell, comrades," he wrote on his blog late Monday.

After the police interview Tuesday, he said he had been informed that a linguistic expert had reviewed his poem at the police's request and determined that it contained some "incorrect" references. A decision on whether to open a criminal case now rests in prosecutors' hands, he said.