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"Rain" and "important stories" now foreign agents
On the evening of August 20, the Ministry of Justice included in the list of foreign agents the Rain TV channel, important stories and several correspondents working for the publication. In social networks, this is called the "defeat of independent media" and the "war on destruction." "Paper" gathered the first reactions of journalists, politicians and human rights activists to the situation.
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Opposition politician
- “Rain” is a foreign agent. Six months ago, it seemed that some last brakes remained-“new”, “rain”, “echo” ... No, there was no remaining. And here are “important stories” with all journalists.
The war of destruction.
Editor -in -Chief of Echo Moscow
- To declare the Rain TV channel by a foreign agent, in my opinion, the absolute abuse of law. We know our colleagues as honest professionals and wish them to challenge this unfair and political decision in court.
Natalia Sindeeva
Co -founder and general director of Rain (comment "" Medusa ")
- Of course, it is not clear [why the “rain” was recognized as an foreigner]. But, it is obvious that sooner or later it should have happened.
How to answer this question when the repressive car turned on? Therefore, it is strange that we lasted for some time. But nothing, we will not give up so simply, we will continue to work!
REPUBLIC editor -in -chief
- A terrible decision to recognize the "rain" by a foreign agent. I note that Rain publishes financial statements. You can see where the money comes from and what it is spent on. "Rain" is not a foreign agent.
This, unfortunately, is simply the defeat of independent media. The authorities do not need any criticism, no independent opinion. Very bad.
Human rights activist
-Friday tradition: new media-foreign agents. The Rain TV channel and the publication “Important Stories”, as well as seven individuals: all journalists of “important stories”.
Meanwhile, Vasily Piskarev, the chairman of the most funny commission of the State Duma: to investigate the facts of the interference of foreign states in the internal affairs of Russia, said that “Materials from different organizations and citizens” allegedly received the rain channel.
The commission allegedly sent to the Ministry of Justice “the appeal of one of the Russian NPOs”, and “a reaction followed him”. As in previous cases, the authorities furnish the repressive decisions as the appeal of vigilant citizens, in other words, writes denunciations for idiots with low social responsibility.
Cold editor
- The Rain and Important Stories TV channel - Guys, you 
Someday, a truck with freedom of speech will turn on our street.
Editor -in -chief TJ
- “Important stories”, “rain”, hold on.
Here we wrote the material about journalists and the media-foreigners with the Run “List 28” 1.5 months ago, now it grew to the “List 43”.
Publisher, political observer
- I want to express my solidarity with colleagues. This is a way of repressions aimed at specific people, in order to create conditions in which the performance of professional duties will be impossible. This is a ban on the profession. This contradicts constitutional guarantees of human rights, as well as international obligations of Russia. The perpetrators will bear personal responsibility <...>.
Head of Yandex.Lovka, in the past - publisher "Medusa"
“We worried for many years that we did not have our Pulser Prize, but the Ministry of Justice did it, it is called the“ Register of Foreign Media Media that perform the functions of a foreign agent. ” It has a collective award, awarded the media, there are individual nominations. Today the next award took place, gave two media (rain and important stories) and seven journalists, two of whom are my friends.
Here the hashtag was walking #prohibited professia , there were many stories how it changed over the past 10-20 years. It has changed, to put it mildly, strongly, but we have never seen such an enchanting destruction of the profession as in the last four (four) months.
Look at the list. 20 people in 4 months. 6 publications. That's not all. There is not enough “project”, it was generally stuck in a separate prize, it is called “a list of foreign and international non -governmental organizations, whose activities are recognized as undesirable in the territory of the Russian Federation”, there for the same time, in addition to them, another 10 organizations. It can be considered Nobel.
Journalist, author of the Yetyub-channel "Editor"
-“Rain” and “important stories” were declared by the media-foreign agents. The fact that with the main and only opposition television channel they would still want to get even was obvious, but, honestly, I was mistaken. I thought that he would not be touched before the elections in order to maintain at least the visibility of the polery of the agenda and freedom of speech.
The fact that the “rain” was recognized as an ino -agent today, on the day of Putin’s meeting with Merkel, is also no coincidence. This is an important signal as the West, the reaction of which is easy to predict, but which clearly no longer cares in Moscow, and to all opposition-thought people within the country.
It was for people, and not the media, because there are almost no non-foreigner media, at least in the etheric format. Only, perhaps, the “echo of Moscow”, which is kept exclusively on the personal authority of Alexei Venediktov.
For Rain, this is not the first case of pressure from the authorities. We remember how he was deprived of advertising income at one time, chopping off the cable channels. I hope that this time they have enough resource to continue work. The voice independent of power is very important. I always said this and continue to insist on it.
Journalist, public figure
- “Rain” is an unfriendly channel on which the whole gang of my friends works. I am between two lights. I understand everyone. And yet I do not fully understand: well ***** [why].
Earlier, the authorities recognized the publication “Project” as an unwanted organization, and its authors and editors of “Open Media”-media-foreign agents. This is how the journalists and their colleagues reacted to this.