The story of the editor -in -chief of the Mediazone Sergey Smirnov is a man who has not yet sat down In 2021, the Russian state began much more actively than before, to deal with the independent media. One of the first signals that it would be worse turned out to be February, the arrest of Sergei Smirnov-the editor-in-chief of the Mediazon website received 25 days for a retweet of someone else's joke that he looks like a soloist of the punk group “Tarakans!”.