Roskomnadzor filed a lawsuit against the first channel due to the plot of the present

Roskomnadzor filed a lawsuit against the first channel in the Moscow Arbitration Court due to the fragment of the plot of the TV channel "present" without indicating its status "media-foreign agent" shown on the air. This was reported by RBC and the present itself.

The department intends to attract one of the largest Russian television channels to administrative responsibility. The protocol was drawn up due to the on March 11 on the air of the First Channel on the program “Time will tell” the plot of a foreign media recognized by a “foreign agent”, RBC indicated in the press service of Roskomnadzor.

In this issue, the presenters were reported to the guests with the guests of the US new policy after President Joe Biden, the Russian embassy to the British Foreign Ministry because of the programs of influence on the Russian-language media space in the country, as well as the resumption of battles in the Donbass. What exactly the plot of the present time was shown by the first channel is unclear.

The first court session in this administrative case was scheduled for May 6.

At the end of 2017, the Russian authorities introduced the so-called “foreign agents” of Radio Liberty, its regional projects, the Current Time TV channel and several Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Subsequently, the authorities began to tighten the requirements for the "media - foreign agents", in particular, the obligation was introduced in a special way to label the content they produce. Roskomnadzor subjected the RSA/RS to penalties worth about $ 1 million, counting 390 violations of the Law on Foreign Agents in the work of media corporation. RSE/RS disputes all decisions of Roskomnadzor in court, considering them a violation of the Russian Constitution, the Law on the media and the rules of competition in the media market. To date, the Tver District Court of Moscow examined and rejected all 72 appeals submitted by the RSA/RS.

The President of the media corporation Jamie Fly said that, despite the judicial persecution and pressure of the Kremlin, the RSA/RS will continue to work in Russia: “We have become an object of pressure from the Russian authorities due to the fact that we continue to provide our readers, spectators and listeners at the time when the Kremlin is trying to limit access to it. We will not leave our audience-regardless of what other illegal fines will impose on it We will fight the Russian authorities.