MOSCOW, July 15 (RAPSI) – Former head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Media (Rospechat) and one of the founders of “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, Boris Mironov has pleaded not guilty to extremism charges, RIA Novosti reported on Friday.

Prosecutors accuse Mironov of making calls for forced regime change.  They claim that the defendant in his book “Battle against Jewish Yoke” intentionally incited readers to armed rebellion, hatred of the Jewish people and sought to dismantle the Russian statehood.

On Friday, Moscow’s Basmanny District Court began hearing a criminal case against Mironov. The abovementioned book written by the accused has prompted initiation of the case. Russian publishing house “Algoritm” has issued about 2,000 copies of the book.