BThis is a new milestone in Russia’s sliding into a dictatorship: the Moscow ruler classified the media as a “bad organization” for the first time, effectively banning it from engaging in journalism. Affected is Projekt, a survey portal established in 2018. His website, Proekt.media, is still available on Friday and now provides many insights about the balance of power and money in Russia.
The latest report released on Thursday describes how a politician and businessman from Irkutsk, Siberia, violated the taiga law against a European furniture company IKEA Sell. At the same time, amid speculation about what might be the decisive factor that the project should be “unpopular” now, a reminder of more spectacular publications.
A topic that has become dangerous
The goal set by the founder, Roman Badanin, is to make the project become Russia’s “leading investigative media” and to resolve sensitive issues.The reporter reported on a previously unknown third daughter Vladimir PutinTherefore, this was due to an extramarital affair between the president and a woman from St. Petersburg. She is now greatly cared for; since a newspaper in Moscow published in 2008 about Putin’s relationship with former athlete Alina Kabaeva Since it had to be closed, such disclosures have been considered taboo.
Kabayeva’s rise in the media, real estate, and business empires of Putin’s companion Yuri Kovalchuk, and Sergei Naryschkin, head of SWR’s foreign intelligence department, and opposition to Russia The connection between Azerbaijani businessmen in the south also highlights the project. Caucasus ally, Armenia. The project wrote about the infamous gourmet entrepreneur Yevgeny Prigozhin (Yevgeny Prigozhin), who was associated with mercenaries and online instigators, about the role of FSB agents in the banking industry, and ordered the terrible rule of the Chechen Republic By, Ramsan Cardero, The second woman also explained the strategy adopted by the ruler in order to present a low number of corona deaths.
Every Tuesday
Therefore, the media has become an obvious target. On June 29, the project announced the real estate information of the relatives of Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokolzev and linked it to organized crime. The next day, media reporters were raided and formally involved in a (actually banned) defamation case. The procedure is now like a prelude to the decision announced by the Attorney General’s Office on Thursday. This is the first time that two tools for combating public enemies have been combined-because journalists like Projekt are now treated this way.
On the one hand, there are regulations for “unpopular organizations”. Since 2015, some Western organizations that strive for democracy and free elections have announced that they have joined “bad organizations.” These rules are becoming stricter, and any cooperation with “bad organizations” may be sentenced to long-term imprisonment, including funding them. For example, a donation requested by its readers through the project. Funding is a common way of defamation.
“Order U.S. Service”
The Prigozhin media introduced the project as a tool for CIA agents, which reflected the views of decision makers around Putin; the president described the project revelation about his former son-in-law Kirill Schamalow as For the “orders” of American services, he obtained huge wealth worth millions of dollars with the least effort.The state broadcaster RT named the European and American Democracy Foundation, which has long been “unpopular” in Russia, as well as Russian businessman Boris Simin and imprisoned opposition leaders as a start-up donation of $500,000 By Alexei Navalny Supported.
