Mikhail Khodorkovsky launched a new online project

The founder of the Open Russia movement, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, announced that the editors of the Openrussia.org website, blocked at the request of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, is now working on a new project called MBH Media.

“This is a new network resource belonging to me personally,” the Khordorkovsky’s statement on the MBH Media website said.

“We made such a decision, because according to the new“ law ”, the judicial dispute about the cancellation of the site blocking can go for almost a year,” he explained, “and I will move on to other forms of information confrontation in case of exhaustion of all possible methods provided for by“ their “laws”.

The Open Russia Movement website Openrussia.org was launched in September 2014. In April 2017, the Prosecutor General’s Officerecognized the activities of non -governmental organizations Otkrytaya Rossia (Great Britain), Institute of Modern Russia, Inc. (USA) and Open Russia Civic Movement (Great Britain).

December 11, Openrussia.org , as well as other online projects of Khodorkovsky-“Instead of Putin”, “Khodorkovsky.ru”, “Open Law”, “Open Russia” and “Open University”-were blocked by Roskomnadzor on the basis of the decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office for “Calls for Massion” and for the distribution of “information materials of a foreign or international non-governmental organization, activities, activities, activities, activities, activities, activities, activities, activities, activities, activities, activities, activities. which is recognized as undesirable in the territory of the Russian Federation. ” Commenting on the blocking, Khodorkovsky said that “existing“ unwanted ”foreign organizations (with completely different names) have nothing to do with blocked sites.”

“We are slowing down the Openrussia.org website,” wrote Veronika Kutsyllo, editor -in -chief of the site, wrote today, December 21. - I hope that temporarily. In nine days, we changed more than 20 mirrors. And although readers were very devoted, it is clear that you can’t live like that for a long time. Therefore, in spite of Roskomnadzor and the Prosecutor General’s Office, we launched a new site. ”