In the Sverdlovsk region, officials forced the opposition editor-in-chief of a municipal newspaper to resign

In the Sverdlovsk region, the editor-in-chief of the municipal newspaper Berezovsky Rabochiy resigned due to pressure from local authorities. about this Editor-in-chief Sergei Stukov wrote on Facebook.

According to Stukov, the employment contract with him was terminated unilaterally: “A whole delegation came to the editorial office: the mayor [of the city of Berezovsky], 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. It didn't come as a surprise to me."

Edition Znak.com specifies that the founder of the newspaper is the administration of the city of Berezovsky.

Two weeks before the dismissal, the mayor of Berezovsky, Yevgeny Pistsov, spoke with the editor-in-chief, the official suggested that Stukov leave his position in the newspaper.

As the official reason for the termination of the employment contract with Stukov, the authorities named the results of the audit conducted by the Accounts Chamber. Glavred explained that the officials were not satisfied with the mismatched sizes of the headlines and the texts themselves in the newspaper, different "word spacing", different sizes of photographs on the pages and Stukov's refusal to coordinate the publication of materials with the administration.

According to Stukov, in fact, the mayor of Berezovsky was indignant at the fact that the newspaper writes little about United Russia, and in the opinion of the head of the city, this party "we all need to move." Also, the mayor, in a conversation with the chief editor, recalled the placement in the newspaper of the phrase "Less Solovyov - healthier sleep" instead of the program of the TV channel "Russia 1".

“You have a bad image in the regional government,” Stukov quoted the mayor.

“In general, friends, I am sincerely grateful to the mayor of Berezovsky, Yevgeny Pistsov, for the fact that for several years he“ covered my ass ”,“ forgave me everything ”, „protected me“. I understand that he is a systemic person to the depths of the spine, but I never became one ... ”Stukov concluded.