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  • 2020-03-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Prokopyeva commented on the Arkhangelsk attack on her Ekho Moskvy Pskov program. Those comments became the basis of the criminal prosecution charge. A transcript of the program has been classified as "extremist material" and banned from distribution in Russia under the threat of prosecution.A full transcript of Prokopyeva’s original broadcast is available in Russian on Medium.com.According to Prokopyeva (en)
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  • On March 12, the prosecutor’s office in Russia’s Pskov region informed a local journalist, Svetlana Prokopyeva, that a criminal investigation targeting her had been completed and that she had been indicted on charges of publicly justifying terrorism. If convicted, Prokopyeva could serve seven years in prison.The prosecutor’s charge is misleading.A transcript of Prokopyeva’s commentary shows that her remarks were explanatory and not meant to endorse violence.Russia -- Svetlana Prokopyeva, journalistProkopyeva is a prominent journalist in Pskov, where she freelances for Radio Free Europe. (Disclosure: Voice of America and RFE are both independent news organizations funded by the U.S. government under the United States Agency for Global Media.) She has hosted a political talk show for a local affiliate of Ekho Moskvy radio and worked as an investigative reporter for the Pskovskaya Lenta Novostei news agency.The terrorist attackOn Oct. 31, 2018, Mikhail Zhlobitsky, a 17-year-old student, walked into the office of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in the city of Archangelsk in northern Russia, took a IED (improvised explosive devise) out of his backpack and detonated it. Zhlobitsky died on the spot, and the blast wounded three FSB officers. The Russian National Anti-terrorism Committee called it a terrorist attack.RUSSIA -- ARKHANGELSK, OCTOBER 31, 2018: Mikhail Zhlobitsky, a 17-year-old student committed an explosion by the office of the Arkhangelsk Region Branch of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).Zhlobitsky, later identified as a member of an anarcho-communist national-radical group, reportedly left a manifesto saying he had decided to launch a suicide bombing because the FSB fabricates cases and tortures people."What did Prokopyeva say?On Nov. 7 (en)
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