Affiliated media: Cheryomukha, Online media

Incident date: November 13, 2021

Attack type:

• Defamation, spreading libel about a media worker or media outlet

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Telegram channel Media Ombudsman

Location: Russia, Yaroslavl Oblast, Rybinsk

Additional information:

The mayor of Rybinsk Denis Dobryakov accused the online media Cheryomukha of paid publications. This happened when, at a meeting with the public and the deputies concerning the transfer of the tuberculosis dispensary to the outskirts of the city, one of the deputies referred to a publication in Cheryomukha, according to which transfer should have not taken place. The mayor later claimed that he had been misunderstood.