Russian officials want to know who’s funding ‘The New Times’

Source: Echo of Moscow

Prosecutors in Moscow have ordered the magazine The New Times to surrender accounting records about its funding. The inspection is being carried out at the request of State Duma deputy Nikolai Ryzhak, in connection with claims by a certain “D. Ignatov” that the magazine is violating Russia’s media regulations.

The financial documents were supposed to be turned over by May 7, but chief editor Evgeniya Albats says the magazine only received prosecutors’ request on May 10.

Over the past few years, The New Times (which went digital-only in June 2017) has received several warnings from Russia’s federal media censor. In February 2016, the magazine mentioned the Ukrainian extremist group “Right Sector.” In December 2016 and November 2017, the magazine published obscenities. In June 2017, The New Times was fined 100,000 rubles (about $1,600) for a story about a man in Kaluga who joined a militant group in Syria. Russian officials determined that the article partly “justified” terrorism.

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