The editor-in-chief of an independent Ryazan publication was released from pretrial detention and placed under house arrest.

May 28 in court Ryazan A hearing was held to extend the pretrial detention of Novaya Gazeta Ryazan editor-in-chief Alexei Frolov. The court released him to house arrest. сообщает "Ryazan. Side view."

The day before, journalists requested In this regard, in addition to Frolov, the Investigative Committee also asked for the release of the leader of the Ryazan branch of the Yabloko party, Konstantin Smirnov.

Smirnov was detained in late January "on suspicion of extortion on an especially large scale" from Alexey Rogotovsky, director of the regional Capital Repairs Fund. The following day, Alexey Frolov, editor of the Ryazan newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and Natalya Smolyaninova, former editor of the website RZN-info, were arrested. All three allegedly extorted money from Rogotovsky in exchange for refusing to publish negative articles. Smolyaninova is under house arrest.

Read about how virtually the entire independent press was decapitated in Ryazan. in the material of the "Regional Aspect".