On 9 November 2023, police arrested Vladislav Ivanenko, a journalist with the independent regional news website Properm.ru, at his home in Perm. The journalist was taken to a Temporary Detention Center for Foreign Citizens.
On November 13, Ivanenko was deported to Kazakhstan, despite a Perm court suspending the decision to cancel Ivanenko’s residence permit before this. Ivanenko had lived in Perm for eight years but had recently received a notice of cancellation of his residence permit, which he appealed before the legal deadline. The authorities did not give a reason for the cancellation and Ivanenko had not faced any administrative or criminal charges. “We consider the actions of the law enforcement agencies to be illegal and excessive and demand that they stop putting pressure on the employee and the editorial office,” Properm.ru said, adding that it believed the reasons for canceling Ivanenko’s residence permit were “baseless.”
Properm.ru covers the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine as well as local issues such as COVID-19, urban planning and environmental pollution. The Department of the Russian Ministry of Interior in Perm declined to comment.