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I welcome guests and regular readers of the site site... So, video blogger, publicist and critic Ruslan Sokolovsky(earlier Saibabtalov) was born on October 20, 1994 in Shadrinsk. In the nineties, his parents traded in the clandestine sale of alcoholic beverages. Due to problems with business, the family had to go out of town for a year. Due to abrupt changes, the boy becomes withdrawn. After the danger has passed, the family returns home.
At the age of 14, Sokolovsky lost his father - he died of a heart attack. During that period, the teenager becomes even more squeezed and devotes all the time to reading books, which he became interested in in early childhood. The young man mastered the entire parental stock of books, then he began to buy new ones, and also signed up for the library.

Despite his great reading, Ruslan had practically no social skills, so he had no friends, and, in addition, was the sickest in the class. To fix this, in the 8th grade he began to engage in weightlifting, then switched to powerlifting. Sokolovsky quickly caught up with his peers in physical form, and later devotes time to fencing and throwing knives.

In high school, he got carried away with parliamentary debates, where he competed with students and even defeated them. At that time, the young man was a frequent participant in various biology Olympiads.
When Ruslan got the Internet, he immediately became interested in how he could make money on the Internet. Whoever he was - a rewriter, copywriter, SEO optimizer. In those days, Sokolovsky paid more attention to making money on the Internet than studying.

After graduating from school, he enters a psychologist, but after the first session he realizes that this is not his. Then he tries to study to become a lawyer, but this university drops out even faster than the previous one. Then he tries to work in the office, open his own projects on the Internet, VKontakte, but all these activities quickly bored him.
On July 22, 2014, he registers his personal YouTube channel, on which he begins to release his own videos. It is this activity that Sokolovsky considers one of the most interesting in his experience.

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He started with translations and soundtracks of other videos, then he tried to make completely his own videos, in which he shared his position on various topical issues, and also talked about events, persons, films, books, etc. that interest him. Ruslan tried to choose topics that would be interesting to the viewer "with brains".

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Also, the guy in many videos was engaged in criticism of religion, including Orthodoxy in a very cynical and harsh form. The guy was inspired by the old program of Alexander Nevzorov "600 seconds".

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Since 2016 it has been producing its own magazine"Sokolovsky", inspired by the infamous French publication "Charlie Hebdo".

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On August 11, I published a video in which a blogger, being in the Yekaterinburg Temple-on-the-Blood, is looking for Pokemon in the popular mobile game "Pokemon Go".

The fact is that the media disseminated information that responsibility was introduced for catching Pokémon in the church. Sokolovsky, on the other hand, believed that there was nothing wrong with walking around with a smartphone in a temple, especially in Russian legislation not a word was written about this situation. This is what became the prerequisite for recording a video.

CAPTURING POKEMONS IN THE CHURCH - 2016

On September 2, riot police broke into the guy's apartment and detained him on charges of "insulting the feelings of believers."
The guy spent 8 months in prison (he was in a pre-trial detention center and under house arrest). On May 11, Sokolovsky was found guilty on several counts (incitement to hostility and hatred, extremism, insulting the feelings of believers) and sentenced to 3.5 years probation. It is worth noting that the young man was tried not only for the video about Pokemon - they studied in general all the content that he posted in the public domain.
Being free, the guy plans to graduate from the university, as well as engage in volunteer activities under the patronage of the head of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman.
He also starts working for the Znak.com media, for which he removes his column about the events of the last days. This decision is due to the fact that Ruslan wants to have protection from funds mass information, who will competently grind his rollers, so that they do not plant again.

Ruslan Sokolovsky is a Russian video blogger, publisher and publicist. Ruslan was born in 1994 in the small town of Shadrinsk, which is located in the Kurgan region, where he spent his childhood and youth. When the boy was only 13 years old, a misfortune happened in the family - Ruslan was left without a father, and later he was raised by his mother.

The guy from childhood was addicted and inquisitive, tried to understand the rapidly developing computer technology... He was especially interested in the Internet industry. As a teenager, Sokolovsky started building websites. From the age of 16, he began to earn money from a hobby: he became interested in freelancing, remotely completing the tasks of employers for writing and marketing analysis of Internet pages.

After graduating from high school, the young man enters the Kurgan State University at the Faculty of Psychology. But, having studied one course there, Ruslan Sokolovsky realized that he had made a not entirely correct choice of his future profession. He moved to Yekaterinburg and in 2012 became a student of the law faculty of the Ural Humanitarian Institute, where he is still studying.

Blogosphere

Continuing to create sites, Ruslan Sokolovsky got a job in large company for the position of SEO specialist, where he began to optimize the work of web portals. But a daily visit to the office was not what the soul of a creative young man demanded. He retires from the office and at the age of 19 formalizes his first company of his own.

For some time he worked in his previous field of activity, then focused on marketing research and the promotion of content on social media networks. Later, he took up various Internet projects, created a personal public on the popular social network and a video channel on YouTube.

Success did not come immediately, but when Sokolovsky took up translations and dubbing videos, he managed to attract the attention of Internet users. Having found his niche, Ruslan realized himself as a video blogger, uploading videos to the network in which he expressed his opinion about famous personalities, popular films, events in the world community or about himself.

During the year, Sokolovsky's blog gathered over 100,000 subscribers on the YouTube portal and about 45,000 on the VK social network. The fans of the project participate in the life of the blog and actively comment on the videos they like.

Publishing

The latest brainchild of the video blogger was, which was created as a domestic adaptation of the controversial French publication "Charlie Hebdo". A special logo of the publisher flaunts on the cover of the monthly, and on the pages Sokolovsky speaks rather sharply in a sarcastic form about all the events that excite him in Russian and foreign reality.

In parallel with the paper edition, an electronic version of the magazine is published.

Personal life

Ruslan Sokolovsky is not an ardent lover of talking about his private life and romantic relationships. It is known that he was never married and has no children, as he adheres to the ideology of the childfree subculture, which is characterized by a conscious unwillingness to have children in the name of personal freedom.

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God and pokemon

A few touches to the arrest of blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky

Ruslan Sokolovsky's story is a bad story, no matter how you look at it. In addition, in it, as is often the case with big and loud stories, many ambiguities and clichés have appeared, and our task as journalists is to dispel these ambiguities and overcome clichés as much as possible. Therefore - a few comments.

Firstly, the interpretation used by everyone that the blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky was arrested "for catching Pokemon in the Temple-on-the-Blood" is only partially correct. The case was initiated not for catching Pokemon, but for Ruslan's posting on YouTube of several videos, which someone recognized as offensive to believers. The video itself with the Pokemon catching recorded on it became only one of three episodes of the criminal case. Therefore, it is more correct to say that "a blogger who caught Pokemon in the temple was arrested", and not "a blogger was arrested for catching Pokemon."

Secondly, in order to understand the context, it is important to say that it is wrong to look at Sokolovsky as a video blogger far from political and social topics, who, for the sake of a joke, went to the temple to catch Pokemon, and he was suddenly grabbed for it. The theme of religion is one of the most important in, so to speak, the work of Sokolovsky. He is a popular and active figure in various atheistic publics and groups. V my blog he regularly addressed the topic of religion in the form of rather provocatively formulated atheism. According to him, he received all sorts of threats, and he was in constant skirmish with Orthodox activists. Such episodes can be seen in some of his roller skates(caution: strictly 18+, and the faint of heart is better off not looking).

Ruslan Sokolovsky even published his own satirical magazine "Sokolovsky!", Which can be downloaded as PDF or purchased in paper form on his website. The blogger has a video in which he is distributing issues of his magazine in Yekaterinburg. Ruslan points to criticism of the Church and clericalism as one of the main topics of the magazine, and he cites the Charlie Hebdo edition, known for its provocative cartoons (and the tragic consequences of their publications), as an example for inspiration. At the same time, I did not come across in his video calls to somehow discriminate or show aggression towards believers - although, of course, I did not watch all the videos.

We have to make allowances for Sokolovsky's age and his maximalism, but it must be admitted that in at least several videos he asks topical and difficult questions that are related not only to faith, but also to the structure of the country in general. For example, citing figures for the size of the middle class in Russia (4%), he notes that “the entire population of Russia lives in disgusting conditions,” and, in his opinion, the only thing that distracts people is faith. He urges to soberly realize the severity of the situation and think about some changes.

Sokolovsky also spoke about Platon or Roskomnadzor, raises questions of freedom of speech in social networks... That is, we have not just a “case against a blogger,” it is, in a sense, a case against a public activist and publicist.

Do not rush to grin at this place. If you think in terms of media, and this is thirdly, Sokolovsky is a fairly successful one-man media outlet: 273,000 users have subscribed to his channel, and the number of views of the most popular videos has exceeded half a million. There are much more popular video bloggers in the country (for example, Katya Klep - more than 4.7 million subscribers), but for a young provincial guy (Sokolovsky is from Shadrinsk, recently moved to Yekaterinburg) this is a very decent result. We can say that Sokolovsky is more popular than the overwhelming majority of Yekaterinburg media outlets. Both his provocative format and the content of his video were in demand among the audience. As far as we know, video blogging was his main source of income, Ruslan also helped his disabled mother. Formally, he cannot be called a journalist or a publicist, but if we have a person who regularly discusses socio-political issues with an audience of almost 300 thousand people, then is this not journalistic journalism? Albeit in a kind of 2016 format.

Fourthly, in order to understand the Sokolovsky phenomenon, one must understand the general phenomenon of “youth video blogging” and “youth Runet” (it sounds awful old-fashioned, but what to do). It is rather difficult for people of the older generation (even mine - although I am only nine years older than Ruslan) to accept the card of acceptable and unacceptable that exists in this area of ​​the Runet. Sokolovsky's blog, like many other phenomena of this world, is filled with provocations, deliberate scandals, hoaxes and obscene language. We can say that provocation is his main "creative method", which makes his work similar to some representatives of contemporary Russian art (including, probably, with the art group "Voina" and Pussy Riot, one cannot do without these comparisons). Here are some titles of his video: "I am a racist", "Patriarch Kirill, you p ...", "Children's porn from the Ministry of Culture." (Headlines should not always be taken literally - for example, in the video "I am a racist" Sokolovsky speaks out "against any racial discrimination", but also against "reverse discrimination", when representatives of national minorities are given certain quotas and privileges only on the basis of belonging to minorities. ”He explains that it is wrong to think of all people as the same: for example, statistically, Kenyans run better than others, although this does not mean that any European cannot run better than a Kenyan).

Thus, Ruslan Sokolovsky is a slightly more complex phenomenon than just a "video blogger who caught Pokemon in the Temple on the Blood." Personally, I am not particularly sympathetic to his provocative manner, I do not share his vulgar attitude towards religion and believers, but you need to be aware that this is an intelligent young man with an active life position. Yes, from the point of view of a traditional, “non-networked” society, he is clearly overplayed. But I am sure that it is wrong to imprison a person for his words, if these words do not carry a direct public threat. In my opinion, the words that Ruslan utters, for all their provocativeness, do not carry such a threat.

Now - about who Ruslan Sokolovsky insulted. According to his lawyer Stanislav Ilchenko, the investigation did not submit any statements from the victims or offended believers that would call for punishing Ruslan. A side plot next to Ruslan's story was the act of the URA.Ru agency employees, who made a note in their note about Sokolovsky that they turned to law enforcement agencies with a request to check the blogger's statements for compliance with the criminal code. Later, media employee Andrei Guselnikov said that in fact there was no appeal, and the postscript was made at the insistence of lawyers in order to protect the media from claims from Roskomnadzor. According to Ilchenko's lawyer, indeed, no statements from the editorial staff have yet appeared in the case, and, according to him, the prosecutor's office began checking Ruslan's actions before the publication of the URA.Ru article. Nevertheless, in my opinion, whether there was a statement or not, the media reported about it, and this act could create a more comfortable atmosphere for initiating a criminal case and arresting the blogger. But this, I repeat, is already a side story.

Whom did Sokolovsky insult, and where did his case come from? There is no insider, it is difficult to say for sure, but the following can be assumed. Most likely, after the first media publications that the video blogger was catching Pokemon in the temple, the prosecutor's office and the police began an inquiry into the fact, which would probably have ended quite humanely if the discussion around this act had not developed rapidly. Feeling the growing interest of the audience and the media, Ruslan Sokolovsky published several more videos on this topic, in which he continued to provocatively criticize the church and law enforcement agencies. The topic began to be very widely discussed on social networks and other media, Sokolovsky was sharply criticized by the TV Agency of the Urals, known for its "Orthodox" position. Plots were released on federal channels... The noise was serious. This could lead to a more careful study of Sokolovsky's numerous videos - perhaps by investigators, or perhaps by some influential Orthodox people, even in Moscow or Yekaterinburg. Realizing that this is not just a naughty blogger, but a consistent "enemy of the Orthodox faith," the guy decided to punish full program... (This, again, is my guess)

But what will come of it? The story is even more controversial than with Pussy Riot: they even staged a real provocation in the church, and the guy just walked with a smartphone, did not bother anyone, and then made a video about this. Yes, the video is mocking. Can a person be imprisoned for a bullying video even if it offends us? Of course not.

The court arrested the video blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, who caught Pokemon in the temple

Probably, in a sense, Sokolovsky is a follower of Pussy Riot. And this is just very important to consider when thinking about his actions and possible punishment. I am almost sure that if at one time the authorities and the church had not gone on a demonstratively severe punishment of the members of the punk group, relations between the intelligentsia and the Church would not have been so complicated now, which means that the militant atheist Ruslan Sokolovsky (or, according to at least he would not be so popular, and his actions would not attract such attention). As we can see, in this case, the severity of the punishment does not at all stop those who want to joke in the church, on the contrary, there are more of them, more and more people are trying to test the strength of the system. This is a self-winding spiral of conflict, and the more they now try to punish Sokolovsky, the worse it will ultimately be for the Church and society itself.

In addition, people cannot help but come to an involuntary comparison between Sokolovsky, who is in prison for videos, and people who are at large, although they are suspected of much more serious crimes (or even have already been convicted of such). “Fight crime”, “Found the main enemy” - this is now a very popular commentary on Ruslan's story, and I think this opinion is heard not only on Facebook.

Now the Church can go in two ways. First: to demand the punishment of the video blogger "to the fullest extent of the law." In this case, in turn, there are two possible scenarios for the development of events. First, Ruslan Sokolovsky will be convicted and sent to prison for 2-3 years. Second, the investigation will not be able to prove anything, and the guy will be released from the pre-trial detention center in 4-6 months. In either case, history will be additional irritants for society, add mistrust in relations between the intelligentsia, law enforcement agencies, and the Church. Perhaps, after leaving the pre-trial detention center or later from the camp, Ruslan Sokolovsky will no longer engage in his video provocations, but I am almost sure that there will only be more others who want to troll the Russian Orthodox Church. And thousands of his subscribers will decide that Sokolovsky was absolutely right in presenting the Church as a bunch of embittered narrow-minded people. Its subscribers are mainly schoolchildren, the future of our country.

There is a second option - to ask the investigation for leniency towards the young man. If Metropolitan Kirill of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye had turned to the investigators with such a petition, I am sure they would have been able to release Sokolovsky from the pre-trial detention center under house arrest or a recognizance not to leave the place. Or the court of second instance could mitigate the punishment after seeing the attitude of the representatives of the diocese. This is exactly what you expect from Christians. And in this case, people's trust in the Church would, on the contrary, grow. Even those who are critical of it would see that the ROC knows how to forgive and seeks peace in society, not conflict.

Taking this opportunity, I appeal to Metropolitan Kirill of Yekaterinburg: Your Eminence, show Christian kindness and do not let this story turn into something more dangerous. See this as an opportunity to show people the best things about the Church.

I am sure that only those who are internally ready to be offended can be insulted. In the desire to put a person in prison for the video, anger and inner weakness are felt. There is strength in the ability to forgive.

P. S. After the column was published, the website with Metropolitan Kirill of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, who is now in Chisinau. He said that he would ask for the release of Ruslan Sokolovsky on bail if the blogger wants to accept such help. Vladyka hopes that, if released, Sokolovsky will take part in the work of the diocesan mercy services.

Sex, drugs and ... pokemon. From the life of a "political prisoner" Ruslan Sokolovsky September 4th, 2016

Photo znak.com

All progressive mankind in a single impulse stood up for the almost teenager Ruslan Sokolovsky, who, due to his childish and youthful stupidity, caught Pokemon in the Yekaterinburg Temple-on-the-Blood. I just caught it, completely without any bad thought. Pure child, what can you take from him? But the evil authorities opened a criminal case against this Pokemon catcher under two articles - "violation of the right to freedom of conscience and religion" and "incitement to hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity" and imprisoned the baby in a pre-trial detention center for two months.

By the way, this citizen Sokolovsky, in order to capture his feat, posted a video about his fishing in the Temple on YouTube, providing him with obscene language. But this, of course, is only because of his youthful infantilism and naivety. They are children! Such children!

And the wringing of hands and shouts of "Freedom to the teenager Sokolovsky!", "Hands off the innocent playful child!" Hundreds of posts, tweets and even articles. The protest was led by the mayor of Yekaterinburg Yevgeny Roizman and twice conditional Alexei Navalny. Here's a read.

Navalny: " Pokémon don't exist. Freedom for Sokolovsky. Just in Yekaterinburg, a man was arrested for two months for "catching Pokemon in church" ... Two months in a real jail cell with the prospect of a two-three year imprisonment ... I also have a Pokemon Go game on my phone, and I also play it Sometimes I play, so I know for sure - Pokemon do not exist ... Thus, the arrested Ruslan Sokolovsky (I don't even know what to call him. A teenager? A student? A very young man, judging by the photo) just took out his phone and poked his finger at the screen ... lives with her disabled mother. That is, they literally deprived the disabled person of the breadwinner».

: « Now, on a denunciation (tip) of one dastardly media in Yekaterinburg, the court arrested a Pokemon catcher in the temple. He is 22 years old, lives with his disabled mother. This is wildness. The guy, of course, provoked, but you can't arrest a person for idiocy, bad manners and a desire to bulge! Shame!».

Immediately, they stood up for the harmless Pokemon catcher in the Temple andBBC and Khodorkovsky's Open Russia. And behind them is the entire opposition chorus. "Pussy Riot" with their two-piece song for chanting in the Temple quietly burst into tears on the sidelines.

And now some fascinating facts about the same "teenager" who "just caught Pokemon in the Temple" and imprisoned for two long months in a pre-trial detention center. Wipe away your tears and let's get acquainted with Ruslan Gofiulovich Saybabtalov, 22 years old. He is the very young Pokemon catcher Ruslan Sokolovsky. As Sergei Kolyasnikov managed to find out, Ruslan Sokolovsky (Saybabtalov) spent the evening and night before the arrest actively using alcohol and drugs, to which he at the same time persuaded the underage girl. And further. The process of an intimate relationship with this underage lady was interrupted by operatives who appeared in Ruslan's apartment.

As it became known, the total weight of the detected drug (ecstasy) was not enough to initiate a criminal case, since 22-year-old Ruslan and a young girl used practically everything, leaving only a small "stash" for later. There will not be a criminal case under Article 228 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (storage of narcotic substances) yet. By the way, citizen Saibabtalov refused voluntary medical examination.

In addition, it turned out that Ruslan Sokolovsky (Saibabtalov), in addition to regularly using drugs, systematically has sexual intercourse with underage schoolgirls who make up the so-called “group of female fans” of the courageous “fighter against the regime”. But, it is likely that this side of Sokolovsky's activities will soon turn into a separate criminal article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation under number 134 - "Sexual intercourse and other actions of a sexual nature with a person under the age of sixteen."

And now a few more no less interesting details about the personality of the innocently imprisoned young Pokémon. It turns out that before the arrest, citizen Sokolovsky managed to give a detailed interview to the portal znak.com, where this “almost a child” said that “ by his act he wanted to prove that he would do it and nothing would happen to him". Sokolovsky pompously tells reporters: “Regarding the video itself, I have a comical image. The jokes I use are often pretty black. So what? Everyone who is not lazy jokes about Jesus and God. We'll have to transplant the whole country like that. And we will all go to the Kolyma. " And Sokolovsky considers the goal of his action achieved. He said: “Everyone has written about me, which means that I managed to draw attention to the problem. I consider religion as such a big problem. " Here is an innocent child who publicly admitted (before his arrest! No one tortured him or forced him to do this) the fact of deliberately committing crimes under the articles of the Criminal Code.

And for the sake of completeness. During a search in the apartment of Ruslan Sokolovsky (Saybabtalov), a circulation of the illegal Russian analogue of the Charlie Hebdo magazine was discovered, the production and distribution of which in Russia the "innocent child" began on an industrial scale. Here are just a few pictures:

So what? According to Sokolovsky's defenders, this is not an insult to believers and not calls for extremism? Probably, this is just children's creativity, well, like the "Skillful hands" circle. Yes, and also about the screams that Sokolovsky (Saibabtalov) lives with his disabled mother and is her only breadwinner. So this is an outright lie. Ruslan Gofiulovich Saybabtalov's mother lives 360 kilometers from Yekaterinburg in the city of Kurgan and practically does not communicate with her son.

That is, throwing eggs at Kasyanov or sprinkling Latynina with feces, sorry, is not stupid hooliganism, but a terrible war with everything that is bright, progressive and handshake; but pokemon and obscene language in the Temple, drugs, sex with youngsters, illegal release of extremist literature and other adventures of Sokolovsky - are they childish and harmless entertainment? Is that how it turns out? One gets the impression that the defenders of Sokolovsky-Saibabtalov simply decided to organize another political prisoner from a not at all juvenile criminal with a whole bunch of criminal offenses and again fight the bloody regime "for our and your freedom." After all, there is only nothing left before the elections - two weeks. And here such luck!