Sergei Gurkin

Affiliated media: Delovoi Peterburg, Journalist

Incident date: June 23, 2017

Attack type:

• Dismissal / involuntary dismissal / forced quitting of the profession / expulsion from the educational institution

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defence Foundation

Location: Russia, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg

Additional information:

"Delovoi Peterburg" journalist Sergei Gurkin was dismissed from the publication after he published an interview with the Belarusian writer and Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich on the website of the REGNUM news agency. The journalist claims that the leadership of the paper was initially not against the publication of the interview in REGNUM, and the dismissal followed only because of the writer's complaints against the editorial office.