In the Sverdlovsk region, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Berezovsky Rabochiy” resigned due to pressure from the authorities

In the city of Berezovsky, Sverdlovsk Region, the editor-in-chief of the municipal newspaper Berezovsky Rabochiy, Sergei Stukov, resigned due to pressure from local authorities. this He himself announced on Facebook.

“The administration of the Berezovsky city district terminated my employment contract. A whole delegation came to the editorial office: the mayor, the first deputy, a lawyer and the head of the personnel department. Our conversation lasted no more than a minute. I signed the notice and said goodbye. For me, this was not a surprise, ”said Stukov.

According to him, the mayor of the city, Yevgeny Pistsov, offered the editor-in-chief to resign two weeks ago. The official reason for the proposal, as specified by Stukov, is the results of checks carried out by the Accounts Chamber. Glavred said that the officials did not like the different sizes of headlines and texts in the newspaper, different “word spacing”, different sizes of photographs, etc.

“And yet, it turns out that I have to coordinate materials with the administration before going to press,” Stukov wrote.

The editor-in-chief also said that the governor of the Sverdlovsk region Yevgeny Kuyvashev, the general director of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company Andrey Kozitsyn, the deputies of Berzovsky and others insisted on his dismissal.

“You have a bad image in the regional government,” Stukov quoted Mayor Pistsov as saying.

One of the reasons for the dismissal, according to Stukov, was also the scandal with the publication of an empty page instead of material about the harassment of people with disabilities at the end of October.

Then the city administration demanded to replace the article on the eviction of the Society of Disabled Persons from their office and sent their own version of the text. But Stukov did not publish it and sent the newspaper to print with the article cut out, explaining that the editorial office could not accommodate the mayor's office in the presence of several sources confirming the information.