Roskomnadzor demands to punish EcoWatch for release without label of foreign agent

Today, the “Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus” (EcoWatch) has reported a receipt of another set of protocols from the Roskomnadzor (the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media), stating that the organization had violated the article of the law on the activities of the so-called “foreign agents”. The label of a foreign agent was absent in the press release of the EcoWatch, dedicated to the death of Alexei Yablokov, one of the founders of the Russian national environment-defence movement.

State bodies are systematically monitoring the EcoWatch, trying to thwart its environmental and human rights activities, said Andrei Rudomakha, the EcoWatch coordinator.

"All over again, everything happens according to the traditional lawlessness: the protocols were drawn up in the absence of our representative; and no one tried to find out whether our organization has any fault in this situation. It's not important to anyone. It’s important for them to impose new fines and report on the ‘work done’. And the fact that the reason for this attack was the press release in memory of the great Russian ecologist Alexei Yablokov, who was a member of the board of our organization, is generally an act of blasphemy over his memory,” the website of the EcoWatch quotes Mr Rudomakha as saying.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.