The founder of the Pravda.ru holding became the head of the Moscow PSC

Vadim Gorshenin, chairman of the board of directors of the Pravda.ru holding, became the chairman of the Public Monitoring Commission of Moscow, which monitors the observance of human rights in colonies, pre-trial detention centers and temporary detention facilities. It is reported by Open Russia.

Moskovsky Komsomolets journalist Eva Merkacheva, who was one of the deputies in the previous composition of the commission, was elected deputy chairman.

• Vadim Gorshenin is the founder and chairman of the board of directors of the Pravda.ru media holding, which includes the pro-Kremlin website Politonline. The publication was noticed in the publication of "stuffing" directed against the opposition (for example, such ).
• Gorshenin is a member of public councils at the Moscow departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Bailiff Service. He is a member of the presidium of the organization "Officers of Russia", whose chairman Anton Tsvetkov was the chairman of the previous composition of the PMC of Moscow. He also worked, according to his Facebook page, for Konstantin Kostin's Civil Society Development Fund, former deputy head of the domestic policy department in the presidential administration.
• New members of the Public Monitoring Commissions were elected in October 2016. Many well-known human rights activists did not get there. At the same time, the former head of the Butyrka pre-trial detention center, a person involved in the Magnitsky list, Dmitry Komnov, was included in the Moscow PMC. *