Viktor Shenderovich - Justice for Journalists

Viktor Shenderovich

Affiliated media: Echo of Moscow, Publicist, Writer

Incident date: December 24, 2021

Attack type:

  • request to remove or block the article and/or refutation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Echo of Moscow

Location: Russia, Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg

Additional information:

On December 24, the Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg charged Shenderovich RUB 100,000 and Echo of Moscow RUB 1 million under the civil suit of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin and ordered the defendants to refute the information that Prigozhin sponsors PMC Wagner.

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