KABLIS v. RUSSIA JUDGMENT
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1) Stefanovskaya Square in the town of Syktyvkar;
2) Railway stations, bus stations, markets, airports, educational institutions,
buildings of educational institutions, religious buildings and areas within a radius of
fifty metres of the entrance to those facilities;
3) children’s playgrounds, locations designated by the municipal authorities for
children’s recreation and activities, pedestrian pavements, bus stops, public parking
areas;
4) buildings in a state of disrepair and areas within a radius of fifty metres of the
entrance to such buildings;
5) buildings under construction, reconstruction or repair and areas within a radius
of fifty metres of the entrance to such buildings;
6) buildings occupied by the regional authorities of the Komi Republic, Komi
Republic branches of the federal authorities, the municipal authorities of the Komi
Republic, state institutions in the Komi Republic and areas within a radius of fifty
metres of the entrance to those buildings.”
35. Syktyvkar’s town administration’s decree no. 9/3483 of 4 September
2013 described the perimeter of the zone in the immediate vicinity of the
Constitutional Court of the Komi Republic, where the holding of public
events was prohibited. The perimeter comprised the entire Stefanovskaya
Square and the adjacent streets, including the area at the crossroads of Lenin
and Kommunisticheskaya streets.
C. Information Act
36. Section 15.3 of Law no. 149-FZ of 27 July 2006 on
Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information (“the
Information Act”), as in force at the material time, provided:
“1. If information disseminated through telecommunication networks, including the
Internet, containing calls for mass disorder, extremist activities or participation in
mass (public) events held in breach of the established procedure has been discovered
– including as a result of a notification by the federal State authorities, the regional
State authorities, the municipal authorities, organisations or citizens – the Prosecutor
General of the Russian Federation or his deputies shall order the federal
law-enforcement authority supervising the mass media, mass communications and
information technologies to take measures to restrict access to information media
distributing that information.
2. On the basis of the order mentioned in subsection 1 above, the federal
law-enforcement authority supervising the mass media, mass communications and
information technologies shall immediately:
(1) order ... the service providers to take measures to restrict access to the
information medium, such as a website, or to the information published on it
containing calls for mass disorder, extremist activities or participation in mass
(public) events held in breach of the established procedure. The order must mention
the domain name of the website, the network address and the uniform resource
locator (URL) of the webpage permitting identification of the information;