Affiliated media: The True Story, News aggregator

Incident date: December 29, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Telegram channel Setevye Svobody

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Roskomnadzor has «permanently» blocked the news aggregator The True Story launched by the former head of Yandex News, Lev Gershenzon. As it emerged from Deputy Prosecutor General Anatoly Razinkin’s objections to Gershenzon’s lawsuit, the Prosecutor General’s Office was not satisfied with the fact that the aggregator cited resources blocked in Russia — in particular, Meduza, Crimea.Realities, and Voice of America. Razinkin also gave examples of materials about possible mass mobilization in Russia, Russia’s use of old Soviet weapons, Federal Security Service plans to organize staged protests in Kyiv, and the destruction by the Ukrainian military of a Russian command post in Chernobayivka. A court hearing in the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow on the legality of the blocking was scheduled for December 28, but it was postponed until March 6, 2023, due to a false report of a bomb in the court building.