 Unless a new law kills it even faster,” he wrote.At the end of 2015, Nossik was under a criminal investigation under part 1 of article 282 the Russian Criminal Code (incitement of hatred or enmity) for a blog post about Syria.According to the prosecution, on 1 October 2015 Nossik published the post titled "Erase Syria from the face of the Earth", in which, according to a linguistic expertise solicited by the prosecution, "signs of inciting hatred against the Syrians, based on the national-territorial principle" were detected.