MOSCOW, November 28 (RIA Novosti) - Dmitry Rogozin, the leader of the Rodina (Motherland) party, lodged a complaint with the Supreme Court Monday over Moscow City Court's failure to send a copy of its ruling removing Rodina from the Moscow Duma election to the party's lawyers.
The Moscow City Court ruled Saturday to remove the party from the election list, granting a lawsuit filed by the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), who accused Rodina of inciting inter-ethnic tension in its TV party political broadcasts.
The party's video features three men from the Caucasus in a Moscow yard, tossing a watermelon rind at the feet of a passing Slavic girl with a baby. The motto line urges people to "remove the rubbish from Moscow".
"He [Rogozin] regarded this action [the failure to send the document] as an attempt to prevent Rodina from appealing this ruling by the Moscow City Court to a higher authority," Rodina said in a press release.
The Moscow City Court also ruled that the party had abused power when it published the phone number of a Rodina member of the Moscow City Duma in its campaign brochure. According to the law, the deputy had no right to give his phone number.
The Moscow Election Commission said the notorious Rodina video was inciting hatred and hostility toward people of other nationalities arriving in Moscow. "The appeal to clear rubbish from Moscow following the video are seen as a call to clear non-Russians from Moscow."
