Hours after he was put under Russia’s “wanted” list, Bulgarian investigative journalist Christo Grozev said he has “no idea on what grounds” the decision was taken and that the Russian government “is scared of our work and would stop at nothing to make it go away”.
Without specifying a particular reason, the Russian interior ministry said that Grozev – who is the lead Russia investigator at the journalism outfit Bellingcat – is “wanted under an article of the Criminal Code”.
