THE journalist Yevgenia Albatz who is known in Russia and was working as editor-in-chief of The New Times magazine, she flew out of the country bound for USA.
She is now going to teach at New York University, and according to what has become known, her name is included in a list of “foreign agents”, which contains names that criticize Moscow negatively.
“I had four administrative prosecutions, I was declared a “foreign agent” and it became clear that in about three to four weeks I would be arrested. I consulted Alexei Navalny, who told me: Zhenya, don’t sit, you have to leave, no one wants to put you in prison,” he said in a video he posted on YouTube.
It is noted that the Russian Ministry of Justice included Albatz in the “media-foreign agents” registry at the end of July. Along with her, the well-known writer Dmitry Bykov and the journalist and founder of the “You Need Help” charity Dmitry Aleskovsky were included in the registry.
Earlier, a court had fined Albatz and The New Times magazine 670,000 rubles for “deliberate dissemination of unreliable” information. Russia’s media watchdog has twice blocked the magazine’s website since the start of the war. The first time on February 25 and the second on March 16.
Source: News Beast
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