In Stavropol region, Internet game player convicted of incitement of national enmity

The Nevinnomyssk court of Stavropol region has sentenced a local college student Ilya Kartsev, a former member of the Internet project "Big game. Break the system" to one year imprisonment for extremism and xenophobia. He was found guilty under the article "Incitement of national enmity".

"Big game" was organized for 'entertainment' of web users with specific approach to the international relations, and involved directly the "Northern brotherhood" extremist community. The game's leitmotif was a call for violence against people with 'specific appearance', 'aliens'.

One could 'defeat aliens' by performing various tasks. The simplest task required from a game player is to humiliate 'aliens". Furthre, the "level of complexity' increased and the project authors encouraged players to 'break the system" - to disrupt the work of law enforcement officers and authorities, in particular, through false terrorism as well.

Ilya Kartsev has already served a half year sentence in a penal colony settlement, where he was sent for performing the fifth level of the game within the Internet project "Big game. Break the system", specifically, he put dummy explosives in the doorway of the FSB local department building, "Stavropol Pravda" paper writes.

Earlier, Kartsev was convicted of false facts on an act of terrorism and hooliganism. The student also distributed the homemade banknotes with the inscription "Do not buy from blacks". Banknotes, which were made by Kartsev and, according to court, implied an extremist and xenophobic meaning, were also part of the game, ITAR-TASS reports.