Tikhon Dzyadko - Justice for Journalists

Tikhon Dzyadko

Affiliated media: YouTube channel Kotrikadze Dzyadko, TV Rain, TV journalist, editor-in-chief

Incident date: March 27, 2022

Attack type:

  • Warnings, pre-trial complaints, questioning and other extra-judicial actions

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Roskomnadzor

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Roskomnadzor warned Tikhon Dzyadko and three of his colleagues who interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky «about the need to refuse to publish» the material. The General Prosecutor’s Office also issued a report on the check against the journalists. Together with Dzyadko, the interview was taken by the journalist Mikhail Zygar, the editor-in-chief of Meduza Ivan Kolpakov, and the columnist of Kommersant Vladimir Solovyov. The material was not published in Kommersant.

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