The director of the Ural newspaper “Vechernie Vedomosti” was summoned to the police to draw up a report on “discrediting” the army

The director of the Ural Vecherniye Vedomosti newspaper, Guzel Aitkulova, was summoned to the police to draw up a report on “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). this The publication itself reported .

Vecherniye Vedomosti added that the security forces found a number of publications that, according to their version, “discredit” the Russian military. Aitkulova needs to come to the police department on August 9.

Aitkulova connects the new police claims with a series of materials about corruption, which include the head of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region, Vladimir Molodtsov , and the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the North-Eastern District of Moscow, Konstantin Stroganov .

“This is another attempt to put pressure on our editors after publishing texts about flagrant cases of corruption and a possible bribe to high-ranking security officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of one and a half million dollars. Still, the material about the video from the colony, in which the current head of the criminal investigation department of the Sverdlovsk region negotiates with a member of an organized crime group, apparently greatly irritates the Sverdlovsk Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs,” said Aitkulova.

Last time, a protocol on “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to 54 posts in the telegram channel for the publication was drawn up the day after the publication of a video from the DVR of a security official who detained participants in the anti-war rally on March 6, 2022. In the recording, the police surrounded more than ten people and forced them to sit on the snow-covered sidewalk with their hands raised.

Based on this protocol, the court fined the founder of the Vechernie Vedomosti newspaper, Tekhnotorg LLC, 200 thousand rubles. The video from the action itself was not mentioned in the case materials. Before this, a Ural newspaper was fined 150 thousand rubles for photos of “Gru Z 200” and “Pi Z Dec” stickers, which were posted around Yekaterinburg by artist Leonid Cherny.

Also in July last year, the editor-in-chief of Vecherniye Vedomosti, Vladislav Postnikov, was fined 100 thousand rubles under the same article. What was the reason for drawing up the protocol is unknown. The newspaper's editorial office said that they learned about the fine when journalists from the Ural newspaper Kommersant called them, who, in turn, read about the administrative penalty in the TASS news.