Affiliated media: Argumenty Nedeli , Weekly newspaper

Incident date: December 16, 2020

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: MBK Media

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Ostankinsky District Court fined Neohod-Media LLC, PremierMediaInvest LLC, and Argumenty Nedeli JSC RUB 70,000 in favour of Roskosmos head Dmitry Rogozin for articles about him «burying cosmonautics». Specifically, PremierMediaInvest was obliged to pay RUB 10,000, Neohod-Media – RUB 30,000, Argumenty Nedeli – RUB 20,000, and Argumenty Nedeli editor-in-chief Andrey Uglanov will pay another RUB 10,000. The court also obliged the defendants to delete articles about Rogozin and publish refutations within ten days after the court decision came into force.