Russian newspaper editor has home searched as part of "hatred and hostility" probe
CHEBOKSARY, Russia. Aug 23 (Interfax) - The editor of a local newspaper and two members of his staff have had their homes searched by criminal investigators after the prosecution service decided that one of the stories published in the paper could incite "hatred and hostility."
"Three citizens who are involved with the newspaper Vzyatka [Bribe] have had their homes searched," Oleg Dmitriyev, spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee's branch for the republic of Chuvashia, told Interfax.
One of the three suspects was Vzyatka editor Eduard Mochalov, Dmitriyev said.
Vladimir Kozhevnikov, an assistant to Mochalov, told Interfax that his home had also been searched, and that "a computer case, disks and documents were seized."
Vzyatka is a free paper that comes out in editions of 20,000 copies.
Mochalov came into the limelight in April when he hurled eggs at the building of the office of Chuvashia's prosecutor during a demonstration, something he was fined 600 rubles for. In May he spent 15 days under arrest for a similar act.
