Affiliated media: Realny Tagil, TV channel

Incident date: October 3, 2022

Attack type:

• Forced cessation of journalistic activity/ closure of media outlet due to the state of war and/or military censorship

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Alexander Solovyov's VKontakte page

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Nizhny Tagil

Additional information:

RadioVeshschatelnaya Kompaniya LLC decided to shut down a number of media projects in Nizhny Tagil. The broadcasting of the Realny Tagil TV channel and information broadcasting on radio stations have been stopped. The director of the company Alexander Solovyov explained the media shutdown by the impossibility «to pursue the information policy which has been followed all these years» in the current political situation.