The court blocked the website of the Dossier center, Khodorkovsky’s non-profit project

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow blocked the website of the Dossier Center, a non-profit project of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The organization is investigating links between the Russian government and organized crime. this The center reports on its Telegram channel.

Shortly before this, the Prosecutor General's Office entered into the register of banned sites the investigation "Dossier" on the role of the FSB in the case of the former head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, published as part of the report "Lubyansk Federation".

The project does not know the formal reasons for the blocking, as they have not received any notifications from the authorities. They explain this by the vindictiveness of the FSB officers and close associates of President Putin.

• At the end of June, the Prosecutor General's Office recognized four European foundations associated with Mikhail Khodorkovsky as "undesirable organizations". In July, the Ministry of Justice included them in the register of organizations recognized as undesirable in Russia.
• in December 2020 The former head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, was sentenced to 15 years in a strict regime colony on charges of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code), laundering money received as a result of a crime (paragraph “b” Part 4 of Article 174.1 of the Criminal Code), illegal entrepreneurial activity (Article 289 of the Criminal Code) and receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code). Prior to his arrest in June 2018, Shestun reported threats of a criminal case because of the approval of a rally against garbage dumps. The ex-head of the Serpukhov district said that he was threatened by the governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov.