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Kremlin Escalates Fight With U.S. Funded Journalists, Officials Say
The fight over the future of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has significant implications for press freedom across Russia.
A studio of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Moscow. The organization, which operates independently in Russia and receives funds from the U.S. government, has become a target for Moscow.Credit.Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters
May 20, 2021Updated 7:54 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON When Jamie Fly, the chief executive of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, visited Moscow in January 2020 to promote his news outlet’s popularity in Russia, he said he received an ominous message from the Kremlin’s top spokesman.
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RFE/RL’s bank accounts in Russia have been frozen following a visit by court bailiffs to the U.S. agency’s Moscow bureau.
The move came after agents of the Federal Court Bailiffs Service on May 14 initiated enforcement proceedings against RFE/RL’s Russian branch over unpaid fines accrued because of violations of Russia’s controversial “foreign agent” laws.
The bailiffs service sent RFE/RL a court resolution authorizing it to search for the organization’s bank accounts and to freeze them.
RFE/RL’s Moscow-based bank was ordered by the bailiffs service to seize the agency’s accounts in order to provide payment for the unpaid fines of 5 million rubles ($68,000).
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has called on Russia to stop targeting journalists after one of its contributors lost an appeal against her inclusion on Russia’s controversial registry of “foreign agent” media. The City Court in the western Russian city of Pskov on May 5 said the inclusion of RFE/RL contributor Lyudmila Savitskaya on the Justice Ministry’s list was lawful. “Lyudmila is not a foreign agent she, and RFE/RL journalists Denis Kamalyagin and Sergei Markelov, are Russian nationals providing objective news and information to their fellow citizens,” RFE/RL President Jamie Fly said in a statement.
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