Court case
The court case was filed in June 2011 by the public prosecutor of Tomsk Victor Fyodotov.
[5] The prosecutor based his plea on an expert analysis of the
Bhagavad Gita As It Is commissioned by the
FSB.
[13] Its authors, three professors of
Tomsk State University, Sergei Avanesov, Valery Svistunov, and Valery Naumov, concluded that
Bhaktivedanta Swami's commentaries on the
Bhagavad Gita contain "signs of fomenting religious hatred, denigration of human dignity on grounds of gender, race, nationality, language, origins, and religious conviction",
[6][14] claim exclusiveness of the Krishna religion,
[5][14] use derogatory terms against those who were not devotees of Krishna,
[5][14] and foster "social discord", "gender, race, nationality, and language" discrimination.
[2][14] In addition to this, it was alleged to contain "calls to hostile, violent actions against a number of social and religious groups".