Director of Ural media reported the search of the apartment of its chief editor – RBC

Representatives of the Investigative Committee raided the apartment of the chief editor of the Nizhny Tagil news agency “Between the Lines” Natalia Vakhonin. This was wrote in his Facebook director Yegor Bychkov agency.

The reason for the search, he said, began with songs allegedly extremist content that Vakhonin in 2011 placed in his page on the social “VKontakte” network. We are talking about the songs of the “right hook”. They are “degrading Russian citizen (as in the warrant is written) and the non-Russian” – says the director of the agency. He also added that these songs of the “Right Hook” “not on the list of extremist materials»

«I regard what is happening as the pressure on the media and our entire team of journalists” -. Said Bychkov. According to him, the searches conducted on the eve of the upcoming elections, as “Between the Lines” – “the most quoted media city in the region, working to Ekaterinburg».

Vakhonin against criminal case under article 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement hatred or enmity), said Bychkov. “Also, remember that the wording of Article 282 at the time of the alleged offense is minor crimes, the statute of limitations which expired after two years”, – he said

In Russia, the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Sverdlovsk region the situation is not. commented on the agency “Interfax-Ural”.