Artem Vazhenkov

Affiliated media: Activist, Blogger

Incident date: March 24, 2021

Attack type:

• Fines and other restrictions following administrative offences

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mass Media Defence Centre

Location: Russia, Tver Oblast, Tver

Additional information:

Proletarsky District Court of Tver fined Vazhenkov RUB 60,000 under the article on distributing fake information (Part 9 of Article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation) for reposting video messages on social network VKontakte from two women infected with COVID-19. The publications are dated March-April 2020.