Konstantin Zvyagintsev - Justice for Journalists
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Konstantin Zvyagintsev

Affiliated media: livekuban.ru (Zhivaya Kuban), Editor-in-chief

Incident date: April 5, 2020

Attack type:

  • Non-physical and/or cyber-attacks and threats

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: livekuban.ru (Zhivaya Kuban)

Location: Russia, Krasnodar Krai, Kuban

Additional information:

The editor-in-chief of the publication Zhivaya Kuban said that the parole office visited him with a warning. The reason for his visit was to warn the journalist about carrying out extremist activities during mass events. He was dissatisfied with the article, which describes the queues in places where special permits for drivers are issued. Zhivaya Kuban wrote that the local authorities provoke mass gatherings of people during the epidemiological situation.

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