“The media publishes information about threats from the Ukrainian nationalist battalion Azov * against the editor-in-chief of RT Margarita Simonyan and members of her family,” the Investigative Committee said in a statement.

Bastrykin instructed the central office of the department to check the fact of threats and report on the results.

* "Azov" - the organization was recognized as a terrorist organization by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 08/02/2022.