Roskomnadzor has changed its mind about drawing up a report on a fake report on a Krasnoyarsk TV channel for a story about “Putin’s troops”

Roskomnadzor did not draw up a report against the management of the TVK television channel for disseminating fake information, reports Legal Aid Headquarters, citing Vladimir Vasin, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora.

According to human rights activists, the department informed the general director and editor-in-chief of the TV channel that a protocol on Part 9 of Article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of unreliable socially significant information under the guise of reliable information) “will not be drawn up.”

Earlier, Roskomnadzor notified the editorial office of its intention to draw up a protocol and reported that the Prosecutor General’s Office saw the dissemination of fake information in the TV channel’s material.

The attention of the departments was attracted by a note entitled “There is no coronavirus and there will not be: Russian pensioners blamed Trump for the coronavirus pandemic,” which was published on March 20.

The material said that activists of the organization “Putin’s Squads” called the coronavirus pandemic an invention of US President Donald Trump. epidemic in Russia . In their opinion, there is no COVID-19

“There is no coronavirus here as such! This is not the virus that has turned the entire country upside down today. It was Trump who needed to raise his… the dollar jumped twice so that his country would take off once again!” said one of the activists. After this, the women burned illustrations of the virus.