Blaming employees and admitting innocence: Ura.ru's editor-in-chief spoke about the pressure on editor Allayarov.

On the eve of Denis Allayarov an investigator arrived with a man who introduced himself as an FSB officer and reported Diana KozlovaThey demanded that the Sverdlovsk editor renounce his lawyers, admit guilt to other crimes, incriminate his employees, and make a plea bargain with the investigation.

"Otherwise, as stated, Denis faces 10 years in prison on charges of treason," said the editor-in-chief of Ura.ru.

The publication reported the dissemination of fake news in the media about the interrogation of another regional editor. Igor Sergeev.

"The first fake is that Igor wasn't detained. And yet he was detained: there's no other way to describe the work of law enforcement officers who wake up a vacationer in the morning and take him away to an unknown destination," he writes.Ura.ru – The second fake is that Sergeev changed his addresses and phone numbers."

In June, NeMoskva reported that security forces had conducted searches at the publication's editorial office, as well as at the home of the head of the Sverdlovsk editorial office, Denis Allayarov, and an agency journalist. To Sergei BodrovAllayarov was charged with bribing the former head of the police department's criminal investigation department.