The Shatoisky District Court in Chechnya brought local resident Tamerlan Dzhabrailov to administrative responsibility for distributing songs of the Chechen bard Timur Mutsuraev. The defendant posted in the public domain the composition “Chechen Carthage,” which begins with the words “tribal prison, executioner empire.”
The mentioned song was recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation in April 2010. Dzhabrailov was given the mildest punishment under the article - a fine of 1 thousand rubles.
Timur Mutsuraev has become popular since the first Russian-Chechen war. Initially, he sang songs in Russian about war, brotherhood, duty and fallen comrades. Later, texts of a religious nature were added to the theme. About 30 of the bard’s more than 100 compositions appear on the list of “extremist” songs. Court decisions indicate that these songs are allegedly aimed at inciting ethnic hatred and promoting separatism and terrorism.
