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The Shevchenkivsky District Court of Kyiv on Saturday has chosen a preventive measure for the intermediary in the case on extortion against Editor-in-Chief of the Strana.ua news portal Ihor Huzhva placing him under round-the-clock house arrest in Kharkiv.

This was reported by the press secretary of the Kyiv prosecutor’s office Nadia Maksymets.

According to media reports, Huzhva’s intermediary is called Anton Filipkovsky.