MOSCOW, August 13. Russia’s Supreme Court dismissed the claim of human rights defenders and journalists, to challenge the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin to classify military casualties in peacetime. The Court did not agree with the fact that the amendments to the decree amending the list of information classified as state secrets, violates the right to free search, receive and impart information, as guaranteed by the Constitution, RBC reports.
“The statements of the complainants the abolition of the decree, which expanded the list of information constituting a state secret, reject “- quoted by RIA Novosti judge.
Meanwhile, one of the applicants’ lawyer, Ivan Pavlov said the agency, which in Article 5 of the Federal Law” On State Secrets “no indications that the loss of personnel in peacetime are to classified information. In addition, Article 7 of the Act prohibits classify data on emergencies and catastrophes that threaten the safety and health of citizens.
Recall that the complaint made by the applicants actively covering the armed conflict in the territory of Ukraine journalist Arkady Babchenko, correspondent of TV channel ” rain “Timur Olevskii, correspondent of” Novaya Gazeta “Paul Kanygin blogger Ruslan Leviev, the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Pskov region Lev Schlossberg, and had previously been accused of treason FSB mother of many children Svetlana Davydova and others. Their interests are represented by a lawyer Ivan Pavlov.
The Lion Schlossberg, in particular, drew the court’s attention to the danger to the public decree. He recalled the tragedy that occurred 15 years ago, the submarine “Kursk”.
“Now all the media were forced to keep quiet about it,” – said the deputy. He also reminded about the response received last August the funeral of the Pskov paratroopers sent to the teachings of the borders of Ukraine.
“At the funeral, hundreds of people came, including children, relatives, classmates. So, they became carriers state secrets. As this law will be applied against them? ” – Please Schlossberg with a rhetorical question to the court.
In turn, blogger Ruslan Leviev – before he published the investigation about the death of soldiers of the 16th brigade of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Tambov General Staff Russian Ministry of Defense – stressed that the new decree puts his communication with relatives of victims under the threat of criminal prosecution.
Reporter “Rain” Timur Olevskii insisted on infringement of the rights of journalists and the ability to hide the facts from the military hazing deaths or accidents at sea raid.
Meanwhile, representing the Putin’s interests in court with claims and Head of the judicial work of the Ministry of Defense named Natalia Elina complaint unfounded, unreasonable and does not affect the personal rights of the plaintiffs. According to her, to classify the item complies with existing laws “On Combating Terrorism” and “On foreign intelligence”, according to which “information on personnel in the field of military, intelligence and counter-intelligence and operatively-search activity of the state is a state secret.”
After receiving a negative response to their complaint, the plaintiffs have now promised to appeal to the Constitutional Court. The agency “Interfax” said Pavlov. First, however, the complaint will be in the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court.
“We offer the opportunity to appeal to the Constitutional Court and to raise the question of how Russian law allows the president to expand the list of data relating to the state secret,” – he said, stressing that, in particular, to challenge the norms of the law “On state secrets”. Pavlov admitted that the decision of the highest court was not a surprise to him.
“We live a long time in our country, I have been practicing for more than 20 years, so we can not say that today’s decision was a surprise to us,” – said, Pavlov.
Recall that in late May, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree according to which the loss of personnel the Defense Ministry “in time of peace during the special operations” were a military secret. Previously, this rule applies only in wartime. Commenting on the president’s decree to classify data on military casualties in peacetime, a spokesman for Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, said that the government’s decision is not related to the events in Ukraine, and does not mean that in the near future such operations.
We also add that the Russian authorities have repeatedly denied the information about participation of Russian troops in the conflict in the east of Ukraine.
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