Affiliated media: Globus , Newspaper

Incident date: March 2, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Kommersant

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Serov

Additional information:

The employees of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to the newspaper's editorial office and confiscated the circulation of the anti-war issue. Globus and three other local newspapers in the north of the Sverdlovsk region, part of the VK-Media publishing group, had placed the following text on their front pages: «Roskomnadzor forbids Russian media outlets to call what is happening in Ukraine these days a war. But calling black things white does not stop them from being black. This madness must be stopped!» The QR code of the anti-war online petition was also printed on the cover.