Freelance correspondent for the publications “Sever.Realii” and “MBH Media” in the Pskov region, philologist. Previously, she worked in the newspapers Pskov Province and Moskovsky Komsomolets, was the press secretary of the deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly Lev Shlosberg. She released investigations about the persecuted activists Artyom and Lia Milushkin, journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva, torture in the Bryansk colony, and blocking communications near prisons in the Pskov region. She was the first to write about an accidental cannon shot at a shopping center and a fire in the building of the children’s infectious diseases hospital under construction in Pskov in 2020.
Name
Savitskaya Lyudmila Alexeevna
Field of activity
Media
Status
“Foreign agent” (individual media)
Reason for recognition
The Ministry of Justice considered articles about activists Milushkins, Svetlana Prokop'yeva, tortures in Bryansk penintetiary, communication blocking in the prisons viscinity in the Pskov Region as a political activity, moreover, for the cooperation with "Radio Svoboda".
Year of recognition
2020
Status description
Since 2019, this register includes those individuals who, in the opinion of the Russian government:
a) publicly disseminate messages and materials created by a media-foreign agent, or participate in the creation of such materials,
b) receive foreign funding (money or property).
A person may be declared “foreign agent” if he/she reposts materials from a foreign media outlet, writes materials for it, publishes joint materials (for example, journalistic investigations), provides some data, prepares...
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