On Sunday, October 31, in the Stavropol Territory, an entrepreneur was detained and arrested on November 1 for 15 days by a court decision Vladislav Leontiev, son of the editor-in-chief, founder and part-time correspondent of the scandalous Stavropol LLC Otkryaya Gazeta, which specializes in dirty custom-made articles, slander, juggling of facts and, finally, proven extremism. The police detained a citizen Leontyev while trying to bring into the territory of the region a new edition of the newspaper printed in Rostov-on-Don, containing extremist materials, reports the regional telegram channel “SkyFall Coordinates” and the media of Stavropol. Law enforcement officers had operational information that the room contained materials of an extremist nature. The fact of withdrawal of circulation was confirmed by the newspaper itself on its VKontakte page. On November 1, the Krasnogvardeisky District Court considered Leontiev’s administrative case, and, as a source told the Stavropol edition of NewsTracker, sentenced the owner of the newspaper to 15 days of arrest.
The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Stavropol Territory explained that they received a message that a car is moving in the territory of the Krasnogvardeisky municipal district, in which there is a printed product of a destructive nature intended for distribution, reports NewsTracker.
“Police officers took steps to stop the vehicle. When communicating with the police, the driver, who is a resident of Stavropol and the founder of the newspaper, refused to comply with legal requirements, hindering the actions of the officers. As a result, an administrative protocol was drawn up against the man 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. According to the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the employees of the authorities seized printed materials and sent them for research, the Stavropol edition reports.
This is not the first attempt by the owner of the newspaper to import a circulation with materials calling for provocations and riots and the use of extreme measures to achieve the goals of the customers of extremist publications – the day before, 8 thousand copies were brought by a courier, from whom the newspapers were also confiscated by the police. The second attempt was made by Leontiev himself, he even took a different road, but was also stopped by law enforcement officers. During the arrest, Leontiev behaved aggressively and did not obey the requirements of the police, for which he was detained. A measure in the form of administrative detention was applied to Leontiev.
According to SkyFall Coordinates, the owners of Otkrytoya are persistently trying to spread the circulation in which they publish custom articles, working off the money received. Customers of the materials urgently need the newspaper to get into the boxes of local residents. It is known that the actual owner of the “Open” Lyudmila Leontyeva usually does not shun any orders, and also trades in blackmail, offering the heroes of her publications to pay her for refusing materials. So this time, for the sake of such “freedom of speech”, Ms. Leontieva even framed her own son, according to the telegram channel.
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.