Venediktov promised to challenge the inclusion in the list of foreign agents

Alexey Venediktov

Former editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, Alexei Venediktov, will challenge his inclusion in the list of foreign media agents, he told RBC.

“This is slander. The person who signed this paper will go to trial under the article on slander and insulting honor and dignity. We will go to COURT and we will appeal this, my lawyers believe that this should be appealed. This is a response to the fact that we sued the Prosecutor General's Office and Roskomnadzor. I am in Moscow, I am in RUSSIA, I will dispute this,” Venediktov said.

The Ministry of Justice entered him into the register of foreign agents on the evening of April 22. Together with him, the department declared journalists Alexander Nevzorov and Sergey Parkhomenko foreign agents, the authors of Radio Liberty (included in the list of foreign media agents) Artur Asafiev, Ekaterina Lushnikova and Vladimir Voronov, LGBT activist Yaroslav Sirotkin, as well as a candidate of sociological sciences and dean of the faculty of social Sciences "Shaninka" Viktor Vakhshtein.

The Ministry of Justice included Venediktov, Nevzorov and Volkov in the register of foreign agents Politics

Since the beginning of the military operation, Echo of Moscow, under the leadership of Venediktov, has been publishing information from both sides of the conflict. On March 1, the Prosecutor General's Office demanded that Roskomnadzor restrict access to the Ekho Moskvy website. According to the department, the radio station posted information “with calls for extremist activity, violence, and also [posted] deliberately false information regarding the actions of Russian military personnel as part of a special operation to protect the DPR and LPR.” On the same day, Ekho Moskvy was taken off the air.

On March 3, the board of directors of CJSC Ekho Moskvy liquidated the radio and the website. Presidential spokesman and friend of Venediktov, Dmitry Peskov, said the radio station had violated the law and the Prosecutor General's Office had the right to take action. “There was no violation of the law, this is even, in fact, evidenced by the letter from the Prosecutor General's Office to Gazprom-Media,” said Venediktov.

The mayor's office did not include Venediktov in its quota in the Public Chamber of Moscow Politics

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In early March, Ekho Moskvy filed a lawsuit against the Prosecutor General's Office and Roskomnadzor over the blocking. On March 22, the Tagansky District Court dismissed the application. During the trial, it turned out that the Prosecutor General's Office did not demand the liquidation of the Ekho Moskvy website as a media outlet, and the radio station was not mentioned at all in the submission, Venediktov reported. According to him, the editors intend to challenge the decision of the court.

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