INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Several Russian journalists in at least six regions had their homes searched by police Thursday, with state media citing their alleged ties
in Moscow and the Moscow region as well as in the Oryol and Tyumen regions of western Siberia.Police in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg
raided the home of Vladislav Postnikov, editor-in-chief of the local Vecherniy Vedomosti outlet, while police in the southern city of
of the journalists are allegedly linked to the Utro Fevralya (February Morning) Telegram and YouTube channels which are owned by ex-lawmaker
Ilya Ponomaryov, a vocal opponent of the invasion of Ukraine.Last week, Ponomaryov, who now lives in Kyiv, was arrested in absentia on
the military.The lawmaker had recently claimed without evidence that he was in contact with Russian partisans who he said planted the car
bomb that killed Daria Dugina, the adult daughter of nationalist ideologue and Ukraine war supporter Alexander Dugin
Moscow has accused Kyiv of carrying out the August attack.RIA Novosti said the police raids in Moscow were also carried out in connection to
to vote against the 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and left Russia that year
