Evgeny Ponasenkov - Justice for Journalists

Evgeny Ponasenkov

Affiliated media: Video blog "Kanal zdravogo smysla", Publicist, Video blogger

Incident date: April 1, 2022

Attack type:

  • Labelling media/individuals as foreign agents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Reuters

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation declared Ponasenkov a «foreign agent». At the same time, The Bell founder Elizaveta Osetinskaya, the editor-in-chief of the media Irina Malkova, and five others, including journalists Maria Borzunova, Alla Konstantinova, and Murad Muradov, were also included in the register of «foreign agents».

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