Security forces came to the Dozhd editorial office in Moscow. Avtozak LIVE writes about this with reference to the channel’s ex-producer Svetlana Gulyaeva.
Today, March 3, Dozhd announced the suspension of work.
The Prosecutor General's Office blocked the channel's website on March 1.
Dozhd editor-in-chief Tikhon Dzyadko and several of his colleagues left Russia on March 2 after the channel’s website was blocked. TV presenters Bogdan Bakaleyko and Denis Kataev left a few days before.
22:04 Dozhd was given two warnings about the inadmissibility of distributing extremist materials, the TV channel reports .
- On February 24, Roskomnadzor demanded that the media write about the war in Ukraine only with reference to official Russian sources. Journalists were also prohibited from calling the “Russian special operation” an attack, invasion, or declaration of war. Otherwise, the supervisory authority threatened with blocking and fines of up to five million rubles.
- Since the start of the war, the websites of the publications“Current Time” , “Krym.Realii”, New Times, “Taiga.Info” ,DOXA , “Echo of Moscow”, as well as Ukrainian media outlets such as “Interfax Ukraine”, “Gordon” have been blocked in Ukraine. ", magazine "Correspondent", "Ukrainian Pravda", TSN, "Segodnya", "Ukrinform", Zaxid, "Mirror of the Week", Сensor.net, Vesti.ua, Depo.ua, Delo.ua. In addition, Ekho Moskvy was taken off the air.