The director of the Ural «Vecherniye Vedomosti» Guzel Aitkulova was summoned to the police to draw up a protocol on «discrediting» the army (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by the publication itself.
Vecherniye Vedomosti added that the security forces found a number of publications that, according to them, «discredit» the Russian military. Aitkulova must come to the police department on August 9th.
Aitkulova connects the new police claims with a series of materials on corruption, in which the head of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region Vladimir Molodtsov and the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the North-Eastern District of Moscow Konstantin Stroganov appear.
“This is another attempt to put pressure on our editorial office after the publication of texts about egregious cases of corruption and a possible bribe to high-ranking security officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the amount of one and a half million dollars. Still, the material about the video from the colony, in which the current head of the criminal investigation department of the Sverdlovsk region negotiates with a member of the organized criminal group, apparently greatly unnerves the Sverdlovsk Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, ”said Aitkulova.
Last time, the protocol on “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to 54 posts in the Telegram channel per publication was drawn up the next day after the publication of the video from the security official’s video recorder, which detained participants in the anti-war rally on March 6, 2022. In the recording, the police encircled more than ten people and forced them to sit on a snow-covered sidewalk with their hands up.
Under this protocol, the court fined Tekhnotorg LLC, the founder of the Vecherniye Vedomosti newspaper, for 200,000 rubles. The video from the action itself was not mentioned in the case file. Prior to this, the Ural newspaper was fined 150,000 rubles for the photo stickers «GruZ200» and «PiZdets», which were posted in Yekaterinburg by the artist Leonid Cherny. 100 thousand rubles under the same article. What was the reason for the protocol is unknown. The editorial office of the newspaper said that they learned about the fine when journalists from the Ural Kommersant called them, who, in turn, read about the administrative penalty in the TASS news.