Two employees of the Ura.ru publication were detained in Yekaterinburg.

Among them is the editor Denis Allayarov, TASS reports. Searches are underway at the editorial office.

At the same time, a search is underway in the apartments of several journalists from the Sverdlovsk editorial office.

According to a source at E1.RU, what is happening connected with the arrest in March of this year of a former police officer who was passing on official information from the daily report to URA.RU.

The publication Ura.ru was founded in 2006 and is owned by businessmen To Alexey Bobrov и To Artem BikovThe editorial team operates under a similar agenda to the official one. Ura.ru's main office is located in Yekaterinburg.