Vitaly Shchelkanov

Affiliated media: REN-TV, Editor

Incident date: September 10, 2019

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The editor-in-chief of the TV channel REN-TV fired senior editor Vitaly Shchelkanov for a tweet in which he joked; "you think that you are meeting the editor-in-chief, but you actually meet a big cockroach, a shapeshifting beetle".