In Magadan, after criticizing the authorities, the editor-in-chief of a local television company was fired

The management of the MTK television company fired chief news editor Vyacheslav Filogrievsky after he criticized the work of regional tax authorities in his personal video blog. The official reason for the dismissal was some "disciplinary violations." about this . writes Radio Liberty

“Probably the last straw was the release of my personal video blog, where in a conversation with a guest we criticized the work of the tax service. The mayor did not like it, which he told me personally. Before that, the mayor also called me “on the carpet” because we didn’t take a picture of him in front of the children who were sent to a children’s camp. As he told me, this is “the best PR that can be”, and we supposedly deprived him of political points. I believe that the dismissal is due to the fact that I did not promote the authorities the way the mayor wanted, with my criticism on my own youtube channel, ”Filogrievsky said.

The journalist is going to appeal against his dismissal in court.

In April 2017, Andrey Grishin, editor-in-chief of the Vecherniy Magadan newspaper, was fired because of a Facebook post about Russia's deputy representative to the UN, Vladimir Safronkov.