Daily Journal:

The closure of the largest Internet resource of the left opposition is absolutely
illegal, like many things happening in our country. Someone Churov, head
The Central Election Commission (CEC), at the instigation of its employee Grishina, decided that it has the right to close what it does not like, to carry out censorship functions in the media, while doing so even without cover in the form of any legal procedure such as a court or a prosecutor’s warning . It’s just that Churov, in the name of our Lord God who sent him (you all know the name of God), wrote a letter to the Ministry of Internal Affairs demanding censorship. The cops called me on the phone, found out my position and wrote a demand to the Masterhost company, which, naturally, complied, albeit reluctantly.

I officially declare that, firstly, the shutdown of FORUM.msk is carried out without any legal grounds. The editors and I personally, as editor-in-chief, did not receive any documents from either the Central Election Commission or the Ministry of Internal Affairs - only a notification from Masterhost by email, they say, we are turning off. I communicated with Churov exclusively through the media, and with an officer from the Ministry of Internal Affairs once by phone. All!

Neither I nor any of the members of the editorial board intend to work in a censored media, and to comply with the illegal demand to remove material that for some reason the head of the Central Election Commission does not like is real censorship.

I also inform you that this is not about “black PR”, not about calls for the overthrow of the system or extremism - just about an interview with Vasily Shandybin, where he talks about Ms. Narusova. Only that! Moreover, in the text itself there is no hint of anything that has a judicial perspective in a claim for the protection of honor or dignity. Yes, Narusova didn’t apply anywhere. Everything that happens is simply an initiative of the Central Election Commission. Most likely, Shandybin's interview is just a reason to shut us up.

But this is unlikely to happen. In the very near future we will change the location of the server, most likely to foreign hosting. We didn't want to, but we were forced to. Apparently, I will have to leave the country for some time, which I also didn’t intend to do, but I will have to.

As a candidate for deputy of the State Duma, I declare that elections under the control of such a Central Election Commission cannot be fair and legal. I myself do not intend to participate in the clown election procedure; I will hand over my absentee ballot to the border guard. You can consider me to have dropped out of the election race.