The Moscow Prosecutor’s Office has withdrawn the summons of Roman Tsimbalyuk, the correspondent of the UNIAN news agency in Russia, to explain the opening of administrative proceedings under the article “incitement to hatred or enmity.” This was announced by Tsimbalyuk’s lawyer Nikolai Polozov on his Facebook page.
“The case of Roman Tsimbalyuk. As of today, Roman has been summoned to give explanations as an assistant to the prosecutor of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. As follows from the call published by some media outlets, Roman had to appear at 10:00 am in office 43 of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. But As the saying goes, “that awkward moment.” It turned out that the assistant prosecutor did not appear at the event she had appointed. Room 43 on the fourth floor of the prosecutor’s office was closed. None of the three assistant prosecutors was there, ”the lawyer wrote.
Later, one of the prosecutors said that Roman Tsymbalyuk’s summons had been withdrawn.
“Whether it is good or not very early to say it is too early. Obviously, so far there is” complete ambiguity “, as in that joke. In any case, the ball is now on the side of the state bodies of the Russian Federation, let’s see what actions they will take,” notes N. Polozov …
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