A case has been initiated regarding the publication of Piontkovsky’s article on the Ekho Moskvy website.
The FSB seized the correspondence between Ekho Moskvy employees and the author of the article "A bomb ready to explode." On July 5, 2016, Vladimir Varfolomeev, First Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, said that, as part of a criminal investigation, FSB officers seized the correspondence between publicist Andrei Piontkovsky and the editors. Two employees of the online editorial office of Ekho, including its editor-in-chief Vitaly Ruvinsky, were summoned for questioning.