Moscow puts Bulgarian journalist reporting Russian crimes on the list of fugitives

The Interior Ministry gave only the birthplace of Bulgarian citizens, date of birth, gender and nationality in an email response to a search on the ministry's website, reports E URACTIV.

Grozev, 50, has long been a <x0-gemb in the Kremlin's<x1 leg, having played key roles in a series of explosive Bellingcat investigations, including that of Russian double agent Sergei Scripal and his daughter in 2018 in the British town of Salisbury, and the 2020 poisoning of the Kremlin's critic Alexei Navny on a Siberian flight.

I have no idea why the Kremlin put me in my “, so I can't give a comment right now. In a way it doesn't matter for years they've made it clear that they're afraid of our work and would stop at nothing to get rid of it, Grozev wrote in Titan immediately after the Interior Ministry's announcement.

In July, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed Grozev was involved in a broken “” to kidnap Russian warplanes, though he did not say if he had eventually filed criminal charges against journalist.

Grozev denied the agency's allegations in July and accused the Russian Interior Intelligence Agency of forging evidence to support its claims, as well as the unwilling discovery of some of its agents' identity in investigating the alleged kidnapping plot.

In 2019, Grozev and his team won the European Press Investigative Reporting Award for the discovery of suspects in Salisbury poisoning after identifying the perpetrators of Sergei and Yulia Scripal poisoning.

Former Bulgarian Defence Minister Boyko Noev called on Bulgarian authorities “to do everything necessary against the arbitrary of the Kremlin, which declared an open threat to Bulgarian journalist Hristo Grozev”.