The chief editor of the "Evening Vedomosti" in Yekaterinburg Vladislav Postnikov was arrested for the second time in a row on charges of "demonstration of extremist symbolism"

The Lenin Court of Nizhny Tagil arrested for 14 days the editor -in -chief of the Vedomosti publication from Yekaterinburg Vladislav Postnikov on charges of “demonstration of extremist symbols” (part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), Mediazon reports.

The reason for the administrative persecution of the journalist was two posts in his telegram channel, in which the police found the symbolism of the National-Bolshevik party, as well as the headquarters of Alexei Navalny. Both of these political associations were declared extremist by the Russian authorities and are prohibited in Russia.

Earlier on March 1, the Kirov court of Yekaterinburgarrested Postnikov for 14 days on the same charges due to another post in his telegram channel with the symbols of Navalny's headquarters. The journalist was taken to the court for consideration of the second administrative case immediately after his release on March 14 from the Nizhny Tagil special month. “Probably, the“ carousel ”arrest was organized,” Mediazone notes.

The Criminal Code has an article for repeated “promotion or demonstration of symbols of extremist organizations” (282.4 Criminal Code), according to which a person who has undergone punishment under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses can threaten up to four years of deprivation of freedom.

Journalists of the "Evening Vedomosti" believe that the case against their chief editor was "lowered" from the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

• By the summer of 2024, at least 54 protocols on the “discredit” of the army were received by the “Evening Vedomosti” due to news about anti-war shares. In total, they were fined one million rubles. Money for paying reporters helped to collect readers.
• In November 2023, the prosecutor's office issued a warning to the Vedomosti publication, finding extremist statements and “inaccurate socially significant information” in the publications of journalists. The department threatened the publication by closing.