Affiliated media: Avtozak LIVE, Telegram channel

Incident date: June 17, 2022

Attack type:

• Forced cessation of journalistic activity/ closure of media outlet due to the state of war and/or military censorship

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The media project Avtozak LIVE has announced the shutdown of its correspondent offices in Russia due to the risk of criminal prosecution. The editors of the project wrote about it on their Telegram channel. «We delayed this moment for a long time, but now it is only becoming more dangerous every day to write about the war and the events around it. Part of the team has left the country; those who stayed in Russia are no longer collaborating with us on a permanent basis. Now Avtozak has started traveling around the world — our team is now in Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, and Europe. We are thinking about how to restructure the format, as most of the content was shot by our correspondents. Now they are gone».