Ex-expert "What? Where? When?" fined for participating in an undesirable organization

The Savelovsky court of Moscow imposed an administrative fine of 10 thousand rubles to the former expert of the TV game "What? Where? When?" Ekaterina Mereminskaya in the case of participation in the activities of an undesirable organization. This was reported on July 8 by a correspondent of Izvestia from the courtroom.

In court, the prosecutor clarified that a publication by Mereminskaya had been discovered on the Insider publication's website (recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent and an undesirable organization).

Last year, a former player of "What? Where? When?", journalist Rovshan Askerov (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation) was added to the list of extremists and terrorists. In May 2022, Askerov was arrested in absentia for rehabilitating Nazism.

A lie without salvation: a journalist told how he came up with fakes for foreign media

The 17-year-old author of the stuffing admitted to Izvestia that no one in the opposition media had checked his inventions.

In May, the Cheremushkinsky court of the capital found guilty in absentia and imposed a fine of 10 thousand rubles to the former editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow, Alexei Venediktov (recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent) in the case of participation in the activities of an undesirable organization. He was ordered to initiate an administrative case into Venediktov's participation in Radio Echo in Germany.