Sergey Smirnov

Affiliated media: Mediazona, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: July 10, 2023

Attack type:

• Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Butyrsky District Court of Moscow fined the editor-in-chief of Mediazona Sergey Smirnov RUB 30,000 for the absence of «foreign agent» labelling in his publications (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation). This is Smirnov’s second fine under this article, the first was imposed in July 2022.