Affiliated media: 60.ru , Online media
Incident date: June 6, 2022
Attack type:
- Court trial
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: DOXA
Location: Russia, Kaliningrad Oblast, Svetlogorsk
Additional information:
The Svetlogorsk City Court of the Kaliningrad Region banned the Pskov-based media 60.ru from publishing information about Russian soldiers killed in the war with Ukraine collected from open sources. After the court ruling, pages with lists of the dead were removed by several media outlets of the Network of City Portals: V1.ru (Volgograd), 93.ru (Krasnodar), 63.ru (Samara), E1.ru (Yekaterinburg), 74.ru (Chelyabinsk), Ngs55.ru (Omsk), Ngs.ru (Novosibirsk) and Ngs24.ru (Krasnoyarsk). The journalists attributed the removal of the pages to staff security concerns.