Timur Almaev

Affiliated media: ProUfu, Editor

Incident date: June 9, 2020

Attack type:

• Attacks via judicial or economic means

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: ProUfu

Location: Russia, Republic of Bashkortostan, Ufa

Additional information:

A magistrates’ court fined Timur Almaev, the editor of the news site ProUfu 60,000 RUB (684 GBP) for an article deemed fake news. The allegedly “deliberately misleading” article wrote of 1000 spaces being prepared in Ufa’s graveyards for those dying from COVID-19.