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Pskov: Journalist Kamalyagin challenged the status
The editor -in -chief of the "Pskov province" Denis Kamalyagin filed a lawsuit in the Pskov city court. The journalist demands to recognize the disposal of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to include him in the register of foreign media that perform the functions of a foreign agent. About this the edition of the North. Reali was told by Kamalyagin himself.
According to him, he demands to cancel the introduction to the register, in particular, for violation of private life, for violation of the notification regulations, for the unlawful recognition of journalism by political activity.
Kamalyagin said that the Ministry of Justice did not notify him within three working days from the date of publication of the order to include in the register. In addition, the notification did not say what messages and materials caused the introduction to its register. “I can only assume, because for more than 1.5 months I have not received an answer to this question,” Kamalyagin noted.
In his opinion, the inclusion in the register is associated with professional activities. “This method of pressure seems effective to them, but this is not so, since [recognition of the media -anti -agent] on the contrary helped to rally some of the journalists,” Kamalyagin added.
The defendant in the case is the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation is indicated as an interested person. Kamalyagin also petitioned the suspension of the Ministry of Justice’s order to include him in the list of media-investments before the court decision.
This is the second lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice for recognizing the individual of the media-foreign agent. On March 1, with a similar complaint, the artist from St. Petersburg Daria Apakhonchich appealed to the court (recognized as an individual acting as a foreign agent). She claims that she never received money or property "from foreign sources to create or distribute messages and materials that are created and (or) widespread by a foreign media that performs the functions of a foreign agent." According to the artist, the Ministry of Justice included her in the register for political reasons.
- The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation included five people in the register of "foreign media performing the functions of a foreign agent." Human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, activist Daria Apakhonchich, editor -in -chief of the Pskov province, Denis Kamalyagin, collaborating with Radio Liberty, journalists Lyudmila Savitskaya and Sergey Markelov fell into the register.
- According to the recently adopted law, “media, a foreign agent,” can be recognized by an individual who distributes the materials of the publication or legal entity recognized by a foreign agent, participates in their creation and receives foreign financing. The Ministry of Justice did not explain on what grounds he included five people in the register.