Journalist Alexey Pivovarov said that he fired “a significant part” of the employees of his “Editorial” project because of the bill banning advertising from “foreign agents.”
In addition, his telegram news channel “Pivovarov” (Editorial)» will be separated and will be renamed. “I completely transfer the legal rights and management of this channel to the team of editors who have been and are leading it all the time,” the journalist added.
A bill that prohibits both advertising from participants in the register of “foreign agents” and and advertise themselves, was adopted in the final third reading at the end of February.
Deputies named Yuri Dud and other journalists included in the register by the Ministry of Justice as the target of the bill. Due to the amendments, interviewer Katerina Gordeeva announced the suspension of her project “Tell Gordeeva”