The chief of police of Feodosia did not see extremism in the Moskal snack in the Koktebel cafe

Former Crimean parliament member Oleg Rodivilov is seeking to prosecute the owner of the Santa Fe café in the resort town of Koktebel for listing a cold appetizer on the menu called "Moskal." The former parliamentarian believes this chauvinistic and xenophobic name should not be used in Russian Crimea, especially during a special military operation, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.

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Rodivilov sent a statement about an attempt to incite ethnic hatred to the FSB department for Crimea and Sevastopol in early June. I received a response on July 18 from the city department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Feodosia, signed by Chief Suleymanov, which confirmed the very fact of the presence of the Moskal dish on the menu, and since 2010. How popular the snack was, and whether there are other dishes with a nationalist slant on the menu, is not specified, but after the ex-deputy’s appeal, the cafe owners decided to remove Moskal, emphasizing that they did not intend to offend anyone. On the contrary, they support the special operation and help refugees from the territory of Ukraine.

In this regard, the leadership of the city department does not see the actions of the cafe owners as corpus delicti or inciting ethnic hatred, and therefore believes that the conflict has been resolved.

Rodivilov did not agree with this answer from the representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He demands that the prosecutor's office conduct a review of the legality of law enforcement officers' reaction to the xenophobic name of the dish in the Koktebel cafe, which causes indignation among visitors, is illegal and extremist.

“This technique - the use of the chauvinistic term “Moskal” in the dishes of xenophobic catering establishments, unfortunately, is a common practice of the Nazi regime of Ukraine both before and after 2014,” the applicant writes. – In general, I continue to insist that this menu is a manifestation of impudent Russophobia by the authors, and not some kind of “forgetfulness” or “narrow-mindedness.” On the contrary, this is a cold-blooded calculation in the hope of making money on the base feelings of those visitors to the establishment who like Russophobia (namely, Russophobia) in Ukraine.”