On 18 March 2022, Kaliningrad journalist Yuliya Paramonova was summoned to the local prosecutor’s office for an interrogation on articles she published. Paramonova works as a correspondent for RFE/RL, a U.S. Congress-funded media, in the Russian exclave region of Kaliningrad. At the interrogation on 21 March, prosecutors asked her questions related to her publications on “political” topics, in her words, and asked how much she was being paid for her articles. Paramonova said she argued none of her activities as a journalist were illegal and that Vladimir Putin publicly declared that there was no ban on working with “foreign agents”, which RFE/RL is legally recognized as in Russia. In response, she was allegedly told to “read the news”, in an apparent allusion to Russia’s war in Ukraine and the ensuing restrictions on press liberty which followed.