FSB refuses hosting to disgraced newspaper

The Federal Security Bureau (FSB) has informed the provider that hosts the website of Internet newspaper Kursiv that the activity of its editor-in-chief is undermining the principles of state. As a result the website was disconnected. The grounds for the FSB's displeasure lie in an article that criticizes the Russian president. The paper is well accustomed to prosecution; the previous provider cut its website off after the article "Putin, Russia's phallic symbol", where one of the President's theses, on the need to increase the birth rate in Russia, was depicted in a satirical vein. A criminal prosecution was brought against Kursiv's Editor-in-Chief Vladimir Rachmankov under Article 319 of the RF Criminal Code ("Insulting a representative of the authorities"). A linguistic analysis of the article was presented to the court, compiled from the point of view of an orthodox world view. According to this analysis the term "phallic symbol" is an undoubted insult.