Five resonant exclusives of “rain”: Putin's friends, falsification on the amendments and investigation of a terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro

The Ministry of Justice included the Rain television channel in the register of media-foreign agents. "Paper" has collected five resonant reports, investigations and films of the channel.

1. "Rain" is known for one of the most voluminous and detailed reports from protest promotions. The top three most popular videos on their YouTube channel include protests on January 23 and 31, 2021 . In addition, the journalist of Rain Maria Borzunova for more than six weeks covered protests in Belarus- Medusa called her a series of reports "the most consistent and detailed chronicle of Belarusian protests that has ever been published in Russian media."
2. In 2017, Rain released the documentary series " St. Petersburg " about the alleged friends of Vladimir Putin and their possible criminal connections. The first episode was dedicated to the St. Petersburg businessman Ilya Traber - journalists call him "the only one of the living criminal authorities, which Vladimir Putin recognized." Traber filed an application for slander, a criminal case was opened . In 2019, the statute of limitations in the case expired . This did not stop the police in July 2021 to come with searches for the journalists of the “Project” to Roman Badanin and Maria Globova, the co -authors of the series.
3. In April 2020, Rain released a two-hour film-investigation film about the attack in the St. Petersburg metro, which occurred in April 2017. The film is primarily concentrated on inconsistencies in the case, the actions of the investigation and the court. The authors talked with eyewitnesses, journalists and relatives of convicts. Read about the results of the court in the case of the terrorist attack in the material “Paper”.
4. In June 2020, Rain spoke about the “hole” in electronic voting on amendments to the Constitution. From the investigation it turned out that residents of Moscow for money could register other people on the portal Mos.ru. The channel correspondent even found a chat in which people were distributed to SIM cards and bases with personal data of the elderly Muscovites. In the Kremlin, the investigation was called "absolute nonsense." The police organized an audit and interviewed the channel correspondent, the information was not published on the results of the audit.
5. “Rain” was the first to say that the CEC will close the broadcasts from polling stations for ordinary people during the elections of 2021. "Paper" wrote in detail about this. In the CEC, this information was confirmed later.

"Rain" was repeatedly subjected to pressure from the authorities. In 2014, due to the scandal around the survey about the blockage of Leningrad, the channel turned off most operators. Soon, State Duma deputies adopted a law ban on advertising on paid television channels, Rain was forced to completely switch to a subscription model. In June 2021, the channel was expelled from the presidential pool - in the Kremlin this decision was supposed to be called the calls of the rain to participate in illegal actions.

The register includes a limited liability company "Rain", registered in Russia. According to the Media Law, the register of foreign media that perform the functions of a foreign agent may include a Russian legal entity that distributes materials that created a foreign media that performs the functions of a foreign agent.

According to the Media Law, “Paper” is obliged to report that Medusa is recognized by the Russian Federation as a foreign agent. At the moment, several publications, activists and human rights activists, as well as a number of well -known NGOs, are included in the list of foreign agents.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation introduced Roman Badanin in the register of media-enocts

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