Affiliated media: Readovka, Editorial

Incident date: July 28, 2020

Attack type:

• Court trial
• Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Readovka

Location: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Vidnoe

Additional information:

The Vidnovsky City Court decided to block the media's website at the suit of State Duma deputy Dmitry Sablin and former wife of politician Pavel Grudinin Irina. Earlier, the court fined the news website for refusing to block the website voluntarily. The lawsuit was filed in connection with the article on the transfer of almost half of the shares of the “Lenin Sovkhoz” through Grudinin to Sablin.