Andrey Shary - Justice for Journalists

Andrey Shary

Affiliated media: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty , General manager

Incident date: January 27, 2021

Attack type:

  • Fines and other restrictions following administrative offences

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Magistrate's court fined the Russian branch of the corporation RUB 1,000,000 under the law on «foreign agents» (Article 19.34.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation) for not labelling websites Crimea.Realities and Factograph. Director General Andrey Shary was fined RUB 100,000 for these two episodes.

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