Police release detained journalists

Today, in Tolyatti, journalists from Inter TV, Danil Rusakov and Vitaliy Kovalenko, as well as Dozhd reporter Timur Oleysky, were detained, while attempting to locate acquaintances and relatives of career GRU military personnel who had been detained several days earlier in Luhansk region. According to law enforcement officials, the journalists were filming certain restricted facilities. The reporters had all their documents confiscated and were interrogated for several hours. A few minutes ago, Timur reported that they had been released.

 “Привет! Отпустили. Всех опросили. Взволновались, что я Екатерину Александрову увидел, наверное. Но она к сожалению отказалась с нами говорить. А видео режимных объектов у нас нет. Не снимал. Спасибо, извините за переживания. Все хорошо. Подробности на Дожде (Hello! We have been released. Everyone was questioned. They were probably worried because I saw Ekaterina Aleksandrova. But unfortunately, she refused to speak with us. And we do not have any video of restricted facilities. I did not film anything. Thank you, sorry for the worry. Everything is fine. Details on Dozhd) ”, - wrote Oleysky on his Facebook page..