Roskomnadzor blocks Prigozhin's "troll factory" and other media assets
Employees of Prigozhin's publications are to be dismissed
The russian regulator Roskomnadzor has blocked access to the websites of publications associated with the founder of the Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Source. This was reported by the Interfax news agency.
The following websites of Prigozhin's Patriot media holding were added to the Roskomnadzor's register of banned websites: RIA FAN, Politika Segodnya, Ekonomika Segodnya, Nevskie Novosti, and Narodnye Novosti.
It was not specified at whose request this was done.
In addition, the Rotonda telegram channel, citing a source, reported that Prigozhin had dissolved the Patriot media holding, including the troll factory.
Medusa, citing one of Patriot's former executives, writes that Prigozhin told the organization's leaders that the holding was "leaving the public sphere."
On Friday, June 30, the Nevskie Novosti editorial board announced the closure of the publication.
The Politika Segodnia publication wrote on its Telegram channel that "the editorial office is being radically reformatted," and the Telegram channel may become an author's blog.
According to the Rybar Telegram channel, the staff of Prigozhin's publications was announced to be dismissed.
Background. The day before, it was reported that Prigozhin's "troll factory" had been out of business for a week, and they were looking for a new manager.
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