"Project" issued an investigation about Yuri Kovalchuk. According to the publication, his Bank "Russia" earns 2 billion rubles a year on the payments of Russians for housing and communal services

Here was the news about the investigation of the “Project” about the entrepreneur Yuri Kovalchuk, the main shareholder of the Bank “Russia”. According to the publication, the bank earned 2 billion rubles a year due to the fact that about 150 organizations collected utility bills through it.

On July 15, 2021, the Prosecutor General recognized the “project” as an unwanted organization: supposedly the publication may pose a threat to the basics of the constitutional system of Russia, defense or safety. And we are forced to remove the publication, although we do not share the position of the Prosecutor General.

“Project” in 2018 was opened by journalist Roman Badanin . The publication specialized in investigative journalism. Badanin and several journalists who worked with the publication were included in the list of media foreign agents.

Among the undesirable organizations in our country are the American Bard College , which has successfully cooperated with St. Petersburg State University for years. Due to the law on unwanted organizations, the work of lawyers and journalists “ Team 29 ” stopped the work.

In the past, the editor-in-chief of “rain” and “RBC”, the chief editor Forbes Russia