Affiliated media: For Krasnodar (zakrasnodar.ru), Online publication

Incident date: June 15, 2020

Attack type:

• community service, ban on certain activities and other punishment following a criminal case
• Court trial
• Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run
• Prosecution for libel, insult, violation of privacy (1)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Facebook page of Vyacheslav Potapov

Location: Russia, Krasnodar Krai, Krasnodar

Additional information:

The court ordered the removal of the article about the vice-governor Anna Minkova, where she was accused of corruption, publication of a retraction, and payment of compensation for moral damages on her lawsuit. The article was published not on the For Krasnodar (zakrasnodar.ru) website but the Yandex.Zen platform account of the same name, which does not belong to the media.