The editor of a newspaper in Primorye was fined for writing about preparation for mobilization
In Primorye, the court fined Iryna Grebneva, the editor of the “Arsenyevskie vesti” newspaper, 60,000 rubles for the administrative article on the so-called fakes about the Russian army. This was reported by the press service of the regional courts.
Roskomnadzor and the court considered unreliable information about the preparation for a new wave of mobilization in Russia.
We are talking about the article “Captains of the ship “Russia”, published on April 10, 2024, Sibir.Realii found out. The text, in particular, says that “by June 1, 2024, the Kremlin wants to mobilize 300 thousand people.” On April 3, he announced this the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, however, denied the information. The Russian authorities conducted mobilizations for the war with Ukraine in September 2022, after which Vladimir Putin declared its end. At the same time, the mobilization law is still in effect.
According to Sibir.Realii, 80-year-old Irina Grebneva intends to appeal the court’s decision after receiving the ruling. In 2022, she was also fined under the article about “fakes” for writing about the death of Ukrainian border guards on Zmeiny Island.
The newspaper “Arsenyevskie Vesti”, which has been in existence since 1991, has the reputation of being almost the only independent publication in Primorye. They have been asking since the beginning of the 2000s to close the newspaper and imprison its editor-in-chief Iryna Grebneva. Now the publication is being persecuted for its anti-war stance. For texts related to the war in Ukraine, Iryna Grebneva, the editor-in-chief of the Primorsky newspaper “Arsenyevskie vesti”, has already been issued three fines in the amount of more than 200 thousand rubles, which she does not intend to pay so that her money does not go to military activities. Grebneva says that the number of newspaper subscribers has noticeably decreased since the start of the war, and blames television propaganda for the pro-war sentiments of many Primorye residents.
