Andrey Shary

Affiliated media: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, General director

Incident date: January 27, 2021

Attack type:

• Fine for non-compliance with the «foreign agents» law in accordance with the Code of Administrative Offences

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

A magistrates’ court fined Radio Svoboda RUB 1,000,000 under the law on «foreign agents» (Article 19.34.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation) for not marking the websites Crimea.Realities and Factograph. Two orders for fines of RUB 500,000 were issued against Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and two more fines of RUB 50,000 each were imposed on the general director.