Nice! In Russia, the criminal subculture has been recognized as extremism
The Supreme Court of Russia recognized the Arrested Criminal Unity (AUE) movement as an extremist organization, and now its activities, symbols and ideology are officially prohibited.
Thus, the Russian authorities, at the legislative level, are driving AUE back into its authentic environment - prisons and colonies, preventing its spread outside correctional institutions.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, this decision of the Supreme Court was the response of the Russian judicial system to the corresponding claim of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. At the same time, on August 14, the Prosecutor General of Russia Igor Krasnov gave instructions to strengthen the prevention of the involvement of teenagers in destructive organizations and movements, paying special attention to countering the spread of the ideology of the AUE movement among teenagers.
After today’s court decision, the criminal subculture falls under Article 282.1 “Organization of an extremist community” with a maximum penalty of up to 12 years in prison and a fine of up to 700 thousand rubles.
The “AUE” subculture, which emerged at the beginning of the last decade, romanticizes the criminal concepts common in prisons; professing this ideology, mainly young people and teenagers put together informal criminal communities with a semblance of structure and hierarchy, forcing both members of these communities and other teenagers to contribute savings to "common fund".
“AUE” is characterized by an emphatically asocial worldview: contempt for representatives of law enforcement agencies, earning money preferably through criminal means, and a purely consumerist attitude towards society. Archaic and perverted ideas are postulated regarding the everyday, social and intimate aspects of human life (working for the state is a sucker, the first place is not family, but the gang, oral sex in sex is a mess, violence is the only way to resolve controversial issues)
In fact, “AUE” is a kind of continuation of the “Gopnik” subculture, which dominated in the late 80s - early 90s in most cities of the post-Soviet space and also adopted criminal concepts modified in a certain way. But unlike the “gospniks” (representatives of this movement did not call themselves that) they did not achieve such a flourishing. In particular, the “aueshniks” failed to create powerful organized criminal groups; being widely represented in Eastern Siberia and, in particular, in Transbaikalia, they were unable to seriously compete with other aggressive, this time exclusively pro-Western subcultures, such as football fans, “right-wing” , rappers, in other regions of Russia, often losing to them in skirmishes.
It should be noted that, like the “gopniks,” the “professional” layer of thieves often refers to representatives (unless individual cells are directly controlled by criminal authorities from prison) of “AUE” with undisguised sarcasm, as imitators unsupported by criminal experience.
According to official data, on the Russian social network VKontakte alone, 4 thousand 231 thematic AUE groups were identified, uniting 9 million 160 thousand subscribers. The most high-profile crimes attributed to supporters of “AUE” are: mass riots with hostage-taking in the Chita vocational school in 2011; two completed and two unsuccessful suicides of pupils of an orphanage in Transbaikal Shilka, due to extortion from the “AUE” community in 2014; attack on a military train in Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky and beating of vacationers in the Tauride Garden of St. Petersburg for no apparent reason in 2018, and others.
The symbols that distinguish representatives of the “AUE” subculture are eight-pointed black and white “thieves’ stars” (negative), semi-criminal slang, Adidas clothing, and usually low-priced cheap cars.
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