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The FSB accused Pavel Andreev*, the co-founder of the media “7x7”* and “Revolt Center” of the Stateizer of the Media. In the case were searches for journalists and activists in different parts of the country
The FSB Komi announced the criminal case under the article “Gosizman” against a public figure from Syktyvkar Pavel Andreev - he was accused of, according to the special services, allegedly for money since 2019, he “provided assistance”, foreign intelligence services “sent against the security of the Russian Federation”.
The co-founder in the past, director of the regional media “7x7” and the Cultural Space “Revolt-Center” in Syktyvkar, Andreev allegedly “maintained secret contacts with representatives of NATO countries,” the FSB press service said.
The Syktyvkar Office of Revolt Center stormed the security forces in masks, seized the accounting documentation of past years, the old seals of the publication “7x7 Horizontal Russia”.
In the case of Andreev, detention and searches from journalists in different regions of the Russian Federation were held. The FSB itself announced investigative actions in 12 regions of Russia .
Pavel Andreev is not in Russia.
The searches went to the addresses of employees of the Revolt Center. They came to journalists and human rights activists.
In Kaliningrad, journalist was detained by Ekaterina Tkachev, friends lost contact with her in the morning of July 8. The lawyer was not informed of operational events, after the search of the house she was taken away.
The Karelian journalist and the author of Novaya Gazeta Valery Potashov had searches - and also without a lawyer. Then Potashoev was taken to the survey, he refused 3 and he was released. According to Novaya Gazeta, in the decision to search Potashov there is also a connection with activists from Komi.
The search today was also at the Komi Memorial human rights activist Igor Sazhin, then he was taken away for interrogation as a witness.
In Mari El came to human rights activists Irina Protasova and Olga Vasilyeva, but they have no accurate data about the relationship of operational events with the “Gosizman” of Andreev and the activities of the “Revolt Center”.
The same situation with the search with the Irkutsk human rights activist Svyatoslav Khronkov, the lawyer was not allowed to search for him either ...
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