“To refuse to satisfy the claims for the recognition of illegal actions to restrict access to the information resource of the Ekho Moskvy radio station,” TASS quotes the court decision.

It is noted that this decision has not yet entered into force and can be appealed to the appellate instance.

On March 3, the board of directors of CJSC Ekho Moskvy decided by a majority vote to liquidate the radio and its website.

On March 1, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office demanded that access to the information resources of the Ekho Moskvy radio station and the Dozhd TV channel* be restricted.

The department reported that this was due to the targeted and systematic placement on the websites of these media of information with calls for extremist activity, violence, as well as deliberately false information regarding the actions of the Russian military as part of a special operation to protect the DPR and LPR.

Mass media recognized as a foreign agent by decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation of 08/20/2021.