Journalist “North. Realities" was interviewed by an investigator due to an interview with a doctor about working during coronavirus

Journalist "North. Realities ”Tatyana Voltskaya was interviewed on April 27 because of an anonymous interview with a resuscitator about working conditions during a pandemic. about this She told the Dozhd TV channel and on her page . Facebook

Voltskaya may face a criminal case on the dissemination of “knowingly false” information (Article 207.1 of the Criminal Code). As Voltskaya confirmed to Dozhd, the case has not yet been opened, but the Investigative Committee is checking. The representative of the Investigative Committee, the investigator for the Central District of St. Petersburg, with whom the journalist spoke earlier, was interested in the situation in the hospital. The investigator for especially important cases asked questions about the work of the editorial office, how the finished material was sent, asked to disclose the names of the sources.

The investigator also offered to hand over the recording of the interview, cutting out the mention of the name of the resuscitator, on the pretext that the article had already been published and the content of the interview was no longer a secret. However, Voltskaya refused to disclose her sources, as well as to voluntarily transfer the record to the Investigative Committee - only in the case of a corresponding court decision.

The reason for the check was the interview “People are forcibly disconnected”. A resuscitator about hellish working conditions”, in which the resuscitator-anaesthetist talks about overtime, lack of protective equipment, ventilators and forced disconnections of patients from them.

• Across Russia, police officers massively draw up protocols, initiate criminal cases and demand that access to content about the coronavirus be restricted in connection with the operation of the law prohibiting the dissemination of “knowingly false information”.