Alexey Venediktov

Affiliated media: Echo of Moscow, Former editor-in-chief

Incident date: August 15, 2022

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Alexey Venediktov's Telegram channel

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow found the words of former editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow Alexey Venediktov that oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin is the «owner of Wagner Group» to be false. However, the court refused the claim to refute this information by Prigozhin’s representatives.