The Zhukovsky City Court of the Moscow Region has fined Ela Znamenskaya, deputy editor-in-chief of the independent weekly Zhukovsky Vesti, 30,000 rubles because of the YouTube stream «Your denunciation is very important for us» discussing the war in Ukraine. Znamenskaya herself reported this to Mediazone.
The editor-in-chief was found guilty in the administrative case of «discrediting» the army (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). According to the protocol, on the stream last April, she, among other things, uttered the phrases “they will return with a sense of complete impunity”, “they send the loot”, “due to some ambitions — hundreds of deaths — we are trying to denazify something there” and «I'm concerned that Russia's official sources are fake.»
According to the journalist, the protocol against her was drawn up after a «veteran of the NVO», outraged by «anti-Russian propaganda», turned to State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein, and demanded «to take measures to stop the massive spread of disinformation, as well as direct condemnation of the actions of the President and the Armed Forces.» Khinshtein, in turn, sent this denunciation to the head of the RKN Andrei Lipov.
The complaint was preceded by a conflict between Znamenskaya and a city council deputy from A Just Russia Sergei Zhuravlev. The journalist believed that the deputy decided to take revenge on her for the article dated November 8, 2022, of which he became the hero, and in response “set” a familiar soldier on her. Zhuravlev himself did not deny that he was familiar with the author of the complaint, but claimed that he had nothing to do with the Znamenskaya case. -publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />“Veteran of NVO ” and “not the last person in town” against journalists. How Zhukovsky Vesti works under military censorship