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A protocol was drawn up against the Astrakhan journalist “Idel.Realii” about working for a foreign publication without accreditation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The police drew up a report against Astrakhan journalist Fyodor Alekseev under the article about working for a foreign publication without accreditation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Part 1 of Article 19.20 of the Administrative Code). Alekseev himself told Mediazona about this.
With “he collaborated under the pseudonym Todar Baktemir. This afternoon the police came to the journalist’s home , took him to the department and drew up a report.
Alekseev clarified that the protocol mentions his interview with 72-year-old activist Sergei Shcherbakov. “But this is random, they just needed to indicate some publication date, so they took this one,” he noted.
Earlier, Kuzbass journalist Roman Yanchenko was first given a warning and then fined 500 rubles under the article about working for a foreign publication without accreditation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for filming pickets for Belsat TV. noted that this is the first time that a Russian journalist has been punished under this article.