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The prosecutor's office began checking the Echo of Moscow broadcast with Shenderovich at the request of Zhirinovsky
The Presnensky prosecutor's office of Moscow demanded that the editorial office of Ekho Moskvy provide an audio recording of the Special Opinion program with the participation of the writer Viktor Shenderovich at the request of LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky. A copy of the prosecutor's demand was published by the Dozhd TV channel.
According to the document, Zhirinovsky accuses Shenderovich of violating Article 5.61 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“Insult”). The request refers to the episode that aired on December 24, 2015. Earlier, the editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, Alexei Venediktov , reported that the prosecutor's office demanded a transcript of the July 24 transmission.
On the Ekho Moskvy website, there is no issue of the “Special Opinion” with the participation of Viktor Shenderovich dated December 24th. broadcast The December 17 , in which Shenderovich took part, discussed the proposal of the opposition leader Ilya Yashin to meet with the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, to talk about the murder of Boris Nemtsov. In particular, Shenderovich expressed the opinion that Yashin should not meet with Kadyrov because of the "Zhirinovsky effect." “You will be nearby and then you will smell like them,” the writer said.
For what reason, the prosecutor's office demanded a transcript of the program with the participation of journalist Leonid Radzikhovsky, which Venediktov also reported, Dozhd did not report.
“Requests for the provision of broadcast transcripts at the request of deputies, the Chechen parliament and other subjects follow constantly throughout July,” Venediktov said. “We provided them - we have nothing to hide and we do not violate the law on the media,” added the editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy.
- On July 26, the editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, Aleksey Venediktov , said that the prosecutor's office demanded to provide transcripts of two issues of the Special Opinion program with the participation of journalist Leonid Radzikhovsky and writer Viktor Shenderovich.
- In the summer of 2016, the management of Ekho Moskvy repeatedly reported on the investigative actions that were carried out in connection with the publicists on the radio station's website. In particular, Vitaly Ruvinsky, editor-in-chief of the site, participated in a confrontation and was twice interrogated in a libel case initiated against opposition leader Alexei Navalny at the request of a person involved in the Magnitsky list, former investigator Pavel Karpov.
- Ruvinsky was also summoned for interrogation in the case of the publication of extremist materials on the website, which is being conducted by the FSB. The case is allegedly connected with an article by the publicist Andrei Piontkovsky "A bomb ready to explode", which spoke about the need to withdraw Chechnya from the Russian Federation.