Affiliated media: Znak.com, Online media outlet

Incident date: December 25, 2021

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Znak.com

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Yekaterinburg

Additional information:

At the demand of Roskomnadzor, the editorial office removed two articles based on the investigative materials of MBKh Media, published in January 2020 — about the flights of the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin on the planes of the Rossiya special department and about the assets of businessman Konstantin Goloshchapov, who is called «Putin’s masseur». Roskomnadzor referred to the requirement of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation of August 3 to «restrict access to information resources containing information disseminated in violation of the law». MBKh Media closed down in the summer after its website was blocked under the law on «undesirable» organisations.