Police detain journalists during Moscow picket in support of media recognised as foreign agents

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Several journalists were detained during solitary pickets in support of TV channel Dozhd and Vazhnye Istorii media near the Federal Security Service (FSS) headquarter in Lubyanka Square in Moscow on Saturday.

The exact number of detainees has not been reported yet. The Main Department of Internal Affairs in Moscow has not provided any comment on their detention cause.

On Friday, the Russian Ministry of Justice added Dozhd TV channel and the periodical media Vazhnye Istorii to its registry of foreign agents. In addition, several journalists have also been added to the list, including Editor-in-chief of Important Stories Roman Anin, journalists Olesya Shmagun, Alesya Marokhovskaya, Irina Dolinina, Roman Shleinov, and Dmitry Velikovsky.

Commenting on the Ministry of Justice’s decision, Dozhd Editor-in-chief Tikhon Dziadko said the channel has no foreign sources of funding. “One could expect anything, but we proceed from the premise that there have to be grounds for the decision. Dozhd TV channel is a media outlet with an absolutely transparent system of financing. All our financial reports are published on our website, we don’t have any foreign money,” said Dziadko.

The editorial board of Vazhnye Istorii also commented on its new status. “As for the list of foreign agents, there are already so many decent people and media outlets in it that it is simply unseemly not to be included,” the official statement on the publication’s website reads.

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