Galina Timchenko

Affiliated media: Meduza, Founder, Publisher

Incident date: December 26, 2025

Attack type:

• community service, ban on certain activities and other punishment following a criminal case

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Cheremushkinsky District Court in Moscow has sentenced Meduza publisher Galina Timchenko, in absentia, to five years’ imprisonment for leading an “undesirable organisation”. She was also banned from holding managerial or leadership positions for five years. Prosecutors claimed that Timchenko founded Meduza “out of hatred and contempt for the country’s state system” and for “the domestic and foreign policy of the current government”. They further alleged that, after Meduza was designated an “undesirable organisation”, she intended to continue its work in order to remain part of Russia’s information space.