VTimes - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: VTimes, Online media

Incident date: March 19, 2021

Attack type:

prosecution for violation of the honour, dignity and business reputation; violation of privacy following civil lawsuit

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Rosneft has filed a lawsuit against VTimes correspondent Alina Fadeyeva and the 2 Oktober Foundation, which owns 20% of the media. It is known that the lawsuit was filed on March 19, but no details are available on the case file. VTimes publisher Alexander Gubsky told RBC that he was not aware of the lawsuit of Rosneft.

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