On April 23, the Russian Justice Ministry designated Meduza as a foreign agent, which means the journalists will have to mark every article they write as published by a foreign agent.
According to the editor-in-chief, Ivan Kolpakov, on Monday many advertisers pulled out.
For now, they chose bitcoin and ether because they are the most popular, and BNB because it has the cheapest transaction fees.
“If it was up to me, I would take all the donations in crypto,” Kolpakov said.
Meduza will contest the “foreign agent” status in court but the chances of winning are slim, Kolpakov said.
On April 17, Anin’s colleague, Ekaterina Arenina, was detained after interviewing people for her story about torture in Russian prisons.
Over the past weekend, police also detained several journalists who reported on protest rallies against the imprisonment of the politician Alexey Navalny, who was demanding medical help while in prison.
Meduza is an online news outlet that provides news in Russian and English.
The team has been operating from an office in Riga, Latvia, which is a short flight from Moscow.
Meduza must now publish a notice of foreign agent status in a larger font than the main text of its articles.
The law on foreign agents was passed in 2012, defining a foreign agent as an organization that is involved in political activities and receiving funding from abroad.
The search was the latest development in an inquiry that overlapped with the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump, who was accused of pressuring the leaders of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son.
fell on concern from investors and analysts that the iPhone maker may not sustain growth in light of a blockbuster quarter and a tightening supply of chips for some of its devices.Shares of the Cupertino, California-based technology giant fell as much as 1% Thursday, erasing a 2.6% intraday gain, despite the company reporting higher than expected revenue and profit across its product segments.During a conference call Wednesday with analysts, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri said the company will see a negative $3 billion to $4 billion impact during the current quarter due to chip shortages hitting iPads and Macs, two product lines that gained popularity during the pandemic.
The Biden administration faces a major dilemma in its dispute with the European Union over Trump-era steel and aluminum tariffs: back down to avoid acute pain for Harley-Davidson Inc and whiskey distillers or stick with the duties even though they are now exacerbating acute shortages for U.S.
airport foot traffic and airlines adding more flights point to a summer travel season that may be “significantly more robust” than is being priced in, Bank of America Global Research said in a report.“Taken together, we believe these signals affirm that an eventual recovery in demand is a question of ‘when’ not ‘if,’ with risks that the pace may be quickening even versus very bullish GDP growth estimates,” analysts including Doug Leggate and Kalei Akamine wrote.Still, Covid-19 hotspots do pose some short-term risks to a sustained price rally and are starting to show in gauges of market health.
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