The editors-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy and Novaya Gazeta appealed to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs because of identical police badges at pickets in support of Azar
The editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow, Alexey Venediktov, and the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, wrote a letter to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, according to the radio station’s website. They pointed out that the police who detained the participants in single pickets in support of journalist Ilya Azar had badges with the same numbers.