MADRID, 6 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Two independent media in Russia have closed due to the blockade exercised by the country’s authorities, amidst the repression against independent media, journalists and civil society organizations.
The Open Media Project team has reported, in a statement released by Telegram, the cessation of its work this Thursday due to the “blocking” of its website by the Russian media regulator, Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office of Russia when considering that it is a platform “associated with organizations recognized as undesirable”.
“We have decided to stop work because the risks to project personnel are too great,” the project team said, adding that they “never” have worked with “unwanted structures”.
He also regretted that the authorities do not allow “media projects with a critical view of what is happening in the country.” “The more criticism, the shorter the life of the project,” Open Media has censored.
For its part, MBH Media has also indicated that it would cease to operate after being “blocked.” “The State, more precisely, those people who now consider themselves the State, has done everything possible so that in Russia every day there are fewer free media, less and less media independent of the authorities,” said the editor-in-chief of the medium, Veronika Kutsyllo, in a post on her Facebook profile.
Both media groups were founded by the Kremlin critic and former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who lives abroad.
The Khodorkovsky Foundation, registered in the UK, was classified as “undesirable” by the Russian Prosecutor’s Office this year, effectively banning all its activities.
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