A second criminal case was opened against the editor-in-chief of "Ash" Nikita Paramanov* - for "failure to fulfill the duties of a foreign agent".
A new criminal case has been opened against the editor-in-chief of the Belgrade publication "Ash" Nikita Paramanov* in an article about "failure to fulfill the duties of a foreign agent", the publication reports. According to the network, police arrived at the journalist's registered address in Belgrade in connection with the investigation.
The case is under the authority of the Ministry of the Interior, but the exact reasons for opening it have not yet been revealed.
At the end of October 2026, a criminal case was already opened against Permanov as part of the article on "Terrorism Justification". The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation included the journalist in the "foreign agents" register in February 2025, and in the fall of that year the court fined him according to an administrative article for violating the procedure for the activity of a foreign agent.
Permanov himself left Russia in 2023 and runs the office remotely.
—Recognized by the Russian authorities as a foreign agent.