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Home of Altay-based LISTok newspaper director searched by police

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Olga Kamarova, the general director of the Altay-based weekly newspaper LISTok had her house searched on charges of spreading “fake” information about the Russian armed forces (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Her electronic equipment she uses as a journalist was seized in the raid. The journalist said that she believes that the authorities were attempting to gain access to the publication’s Telegram channel and websites, both of which have not been blocked, in order to delete them. The newspaper and its director Olga Komarova were previously fined in April for allegedly discrediting the Russian armed forces. The homes of its staff and its office were searched around the same time and its founder, Sergei Mikhailov, was detained in Moscow.

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