An entrepreneur was detained in the Stavropol Territory on Sunday, October 31, and then arrested for 15 days by a court decision on November 1. Vladislav Leontiev, the son of the editor-in-chief and founder of the scandalous Stavropol LLC Otkryaya Gazeta, was detained by the police while trying to bring a new edition of the newspaper containing extremist materials into the region. The police had information that the room contained extremist materials, confirmed by the newspaper itself on its VKontakte page. On November 1, the Krasnogvardeisky District Court sentenced the owner of the newspaper to 15 days of arrest.
The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Stavropol Territory received a message that a car was carrying a printed product of a destructive nature intended for distribution in the territory of the Krasnogvardeisky municipal district. reports NewsTracker.
The founder of the newspaper, who is a resident of Stavropol, refused to obey legal requirements during communication with the police, resulting in an administrative protocol under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (disobedience to the lawful order of a police officer)., the department said. The authorities seized printed materials and sent them for research, the Stavropol edition reports.
The owner of the newspaper attempted to import a circulation with materials calling for provocations and riots, which was confiscated by the police. Another attempt was made by Leontiev himself, during which he was detained and subjected to administrative detention.
The owners of Otkrytoya are persistently trying to spread the circulation in which they publish custom articles, working off the money received. The actual owner, Lyudmila Leontyeva, is known to trade in blackmail and has been accused of framing her own son for the sake of promoting her materials.
Stavropol “Open” has been publishing slanderous dirty materials for a long time. In recent years, articles have regularly appeared in it, in which both federal and regional authorities are accused. Citizen Leontieva more than once published, in her opinion, “devastating” articles about the FAS, the Federal Tax Service or the Investigative Committee in the Stavropol Territory. In the same way – without bothering to prove it – the newspaper “stigmatizes” the governor of the region, regional ministers, heads of districts, as well as federal officials. In its publications, Otkrytaya publicly accuses officials and public authorities of criminal conspiracy, terrorism, and repression, compares their actions with the actions of the Nazi invaders in the occupied territories during the Great Patriotic War. where facts are manipulated, information is presented only in the interests of the customer. The newspaper is constantly in protracted lawsuits – but they are all long-term, and the customer pays right today and a lot.
It is noteworthy that until last year, Otkrynaya was doing very poorly, its circulation dropped to almost zero, and the newspaper was on the verge of bankruptcy for a long time. But it was last year that the financial situation in the newspaper changed dramatically, after which the editor-in-chief Lyudmila Leontieva hired her sons, who are neither professional journalists nor publishers, to work in the publication, one of them is a chemist who left the profession for the sake of his mother’s profitable business. One of the sons was detained with a circulation, which – which is also noteworthy – is printed outside the region.
But extremism is a completely different topic. Now Ms. Leontieva naturally distributes comments about “pressure by the security forces” and “stranglement of the free press” to the same strange publications, moreover, having the status of “Foreign Agent”, and to everyone who rich patrons are ready to send money.
But the arrest of Leontyeva’s son and the seizure of the circulation of extremist materials is quite natural. Sooner or later, any public “heap” is closed legally with the continuation investigations and well-deserved, court-appointed punishment.
