Galina Yartseva

Affiliated media: Russkiy Karavan, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: April 1, 2019

Attack type:

• Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Vnovgorode.ru

Location: Russia, Novgorod Oblast, Veliky Novgorod

Additional information:

The Novgorod District Court acquitted Galina Yartseva, editor-in-chief of the Russkiy Karavan newspaper. She was accused of contempt of court (Part 1 of Article 297 of the Criminal Code). Yartseva had impulsively used the words "scumbag" and "bastard" in 2017 in an appeal to the plaintiff during one of her many trials.