The editor-in-chief of Svobodnye Novosti was fined because of an article that did not indicate the status of “foreign agent” Dmitry Muratov

The Kirovsky District Court of Saratov fined Elena Ivanova, editor-in-chief of Svobodnye Novosti, four thousand rubles for mentioning Nobel Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov without the label “foreign agent” (Part 2.1 of Article 13.15 of the Administrative Code). this The publication itself reports .

In addition, the same court fined the founder of Svobodnye Novosti, the Publishing House Energia, 40 thousand. The decision in the first case was made on February 21, in the second - on March 7.

According to Svobodnye Novosti, the reason for the protocols was a text published by the publication about Evgenia Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk, participants in the “theatrical case.” The material states that Muratov, whom the Ministry of Justice included in the register of “foreign agents” in September, spoke in defense of the director and screenwriter.

In January, a court in St. Petersburg imposed a fine of four thousand rubles on the editor-in-chief of Psychological Gazette, Anna Gubanova, according to a similar protocol - for mentioning the singer Zemfira without the “foreign agent” tag. four thousand rubles At the same time, in Moscow, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Zavtra, Alexander Prokhanov, was fined for mentioning the Carnegie Foundation without its status as a “foreign agent.”