Affiliated media: BK55, Online media

Incident date: April 20, 2022

Attack type:

• Warnings, pre-trial complaints, questioning and other extra-judicial actions

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Telegram channel Media Ombudsman

Location: Russia, Omsk Oblast, Omsk

Additional information:

State Duma deputy Igor Antropenko complained to the General Prosecutor’s Office against the publication of BK55 because of the material with interviews of experts on the subject of the project for the residential development of the territory of combined heat and power plant. The deputy did not like the opinion of Alexander Likhachev, chairman of the Omsk Regional Society of Consumers in the Utilities Sector. Antropenko requested that both Likhachev and the media outlet to which he made the comment be prosecuted for «defamatory and insulting information».