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The editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy website was interrogated again in the case against Navalny
Vitaly Ruvinsky, editor-in-chief of the website of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, was repeatedly interrogated by the police in a libel case against Alexei Navalny.
As Ruvinsky told the RIA Novosti agency, "the interrogation was actually repeated, it was just a little extended in terms of its questions." In particular, the investigators asked how blogs are published on the Ekho Moskvy website and whether Navalny can independently post texts there.
The first interrogation of Ruvinsky in the case against Navalny took place on June 1.
“(I gave answers) in terms of technology, that we have an oral agreement with the authors, not formalized, that, of course, Navalny himself does not have any access to our site, but simply the editorial staff reprints in full, without changing anything, those texts that appear on his website. And everything revolved around it. In principle, they are satisfied with the answers, as far as I understand,” the journalist concluded.
- The initiation of a libel case against the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Alexei Navalny became known in May. Pavel Karpov, a former investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, one of the defendants in the Magnitsky list, wrote a statement against him. He complained of slander in connection with the fact that Navalny in his blog mentioned the film "Caste of the Untouchables", in which the former investigator is accused of being involved in the death of Sergei Magnitsky.
- At the end of May, the police came to Ekho Moskvy and interrogated the case (the radio station's website reprints texts from various popular blogs, including Navalny's blog). On June 1, interrogated Vitaliy Ruvinskiy, editor-in-chief of the site, was also . Navalny's house was searched, during which computers and telephones were confiscated .
- On July 5, it became known that Vitaly Ruvinsky had been summoned for interrogation by the FSB in connection with the publication on the Echo of Moscow website of an article "containing calls aimed at violating the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation." Presumably, we are talking about an article by publicist Andrei Piontkovsky, which spoke about the need to withdraw Chechnya from Russia. As part of the investigation, FSB officers seized electronic correspondence at the radio station .