Aliens do not go here

The authorities of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic expelled the crew of the Russian television channel "Rain" from the territory controlled by them. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the official statement of the Ministry of State Security of the DPR.

"On November 25, 2016, the state security bodies of the DPR in the republic revealed the activities of the Opposition television channel" Rain "without appropriate accreditation of the Ministry of Information of the DPR, provided for by laws regulating the activities of foreign media," the Agency quotes the Agency of the MGB.

According to the security forces, the journalists were “invited” to the administrative building of the DPR MGB for the cottage “on the fact of illegal journalistic activity” and demonstrating the captured video materials.

"When watching video recordings, the employees of the Ministry found that they are biased and provocative. In false light, they reflect the socio-economic and political situation in the republic. For violation of the Law of the DPR, which regulates journalistic activities in the republic, journalists of the REDS CITIES Vasily Andreyevich and Yerzhenkov, Sergey Borisovich, spanned out. On the territory of the Russian Federation, ”the message says.

On Friday, the TV channel said that those in Donetsk Yerzhenkov and Polonsky stopped in touch . Before the disappearance, Polonsky told the editorial office that the crew was detained by MGB employees. On the hotline of the Ministry, the television channel reported that on Friday the department did not make arrests. Alena Alekseeva, assistant to the head of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko, also stated that she did not know about the detention of journalists.

Former Secretary of the DPR Security Council Alexander Khodakovsky, from whom the journalists interviewed the day before, suggested that Yerzhenkov and Polonsky "detained for a preventive conversation, because the spokesman Zakharchenko exceeded his powers and accredited to the journalists" rain "without the knowledge of Zakharchenko himself.

Later, adviser Zakharchenko, writer Zakhar Prilepin told Ekhu Moscow that the detained journalists would soon be released. "Information is one: everything will be fine. There are no special problems. Now they’ll figure it out, and tomorrow morning everything will be fine. They will simply release it in the morning or after half an hour. They will simply release it and pre -vidos,” Prilepin said. “I called, they told me that everything is fine, everything is fine.”

The film crew of the rain received accreditation to work in Donetsk both from the Ukrainian authorities and the Ministry of Information of the DPR, the television channel noted. On Thursday, journalists crossed the border of the DPR from the territory of Ukraine. On the territory of the self -proclaimed republic, they planned to shoot a series of plots.