Affiliated media: Advocate Street, Independent journalistic project

Incident date: September 18, 2023

Attack type:

• Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Telegram channel Advocate Street

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Yekaterina Gorbunova, the editor-in-chief of Advocate Street, said that the media outlet would cease to operate at the end of September. The main reason for the shutdown of the media outlet is its «foreign agent» status. «The shutdown of Advocate Street a very hard but considered decision. It has several reasons, but the main one is the „foreign agent“ status. After the entry of Advocate Street into the register, I, as a publisher, was left with few options for organising the further work of the project. And none of them suit me», — Gorbunova said in the media outlet’s Telegram channel.