A Ural media outlet has been charged with discrediting the army and faces a fine of up to 500 rubles. The violation was discovered after the journalists published an article about corruption in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Today, August 9, the police in Yekaterinburg drew up a report on the online publication "Evening News". How reported its director Guzel AitkulovaThe formal reason was publications about anti-war protests that were posted on the site a year and a half ago.

This is the second time Vecherniye Vedomosti has been accused of defamation. Last year, it was fined 450 rubles, a sum raised by subscribers. This time, the fine could rise to 500.

Journalists turn It is worth noting that both times the police opened cases of defamation of the Armed Forces immediately after the publication published controversial materials about its work.

Thus, in 2022, a case was opened after the publication of a video of the dispersal of a rally, in which police officers forced passersby to sit on the sidewalk.

Now, the defamation article appeared after journalists published an article about corruption among high-ranking security officials. appear including the current head of the Sverdlovsk criminal investigation department Vladimir Molodtsov and the former head of the regional OBOP Konstantin Stroganov, which is now Directs Internal Affairs Directorate for the North-Eastern District of Moscow.

"This is yet another attempt to pressure our editorial staff after the publication of articles about egregious cases of corruption and a possible $1.5 million bribe to high-ranking Interior Ministry officials. After all, the story about a prison video showing the current head of the Sverdlovsk Region criminal investigation department negotiating with a member of an organized crime group is apparently seriously unnerving the Sverdlovsk Regional Department of the Interior." - said Guzel Aitkulova.

Pictured: The trial of the first case of discrediting the Supreme Court. Author: Yulia Koltenberg / Vechernie Vedomosti