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The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined The Insider 1 million rubles (in terms of 12,067 euros) for violating the law on media “foreign agents”. This was announced on Tuesday, December 14, by the press service of the Moscow courts of general jurisdiction on Telegram.

Two protocols were drawn up for the management due to the lack of markings – for each of them the fine was 500 thousand rubles. Roskomnadzor is also seeking to restrict access to the publication’s website in Russia through the courts.

“We are not a Russian publication”

Roman Dobrokhotov, editor-in-chief of The Insider, previously explained his position on this issue: “We will not put any markings, if Roskomnadzor wants to put something on its website, we are not a Russian publication at all, these requirements do not concern us “.

The Insider office is located in Riga.

Searches and interrogations of Dobrokhotov’s parents

At the end of September, a criminal case was opened against Roman Dobrokhotov on “illegal border crossing”, he was put on the wanted list. The police once again came to the apartments of the journalist and his parents with a search. According to the editor-in-chief, computers and telephones were again seized. Roman’s father, 71-year-old HSE professor Alexander Dobrokhotov, and the journalist’s wife were taken for interrogation. Roman’s mother was summoned for questioning on October 4.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on July 23 included The Insider in the list of “foreign media agents”. In 2020-2021, The Insider journalists, in collaboration with other investigators, wrote a series of articles about the alleged poisoners of opposition figures Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Kara-Murza and writer Dmitry Bykov.

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