Daria Tokareva

Affiliated media: TV channel "Tsargrad", Editor-in-chief

Incident date: July 12, 2020

Attack type:

• Attacks via judicial or economic means

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: MBK Media

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Moscow Court of Justice fined Daria Tokareva, editor-in-chief of TV channel "Tsargrad" 60 thousand rubles (667 GBP) twice under the article on fake news because of articles about COVID-19. It is not specified which articles exactly the court is referring to, yet it is noted that they contained an expert opinion, which caused the claims from the Prosecutor General’s Office and Roskomnadzor. Articles were published on the website on March, 25 and 26 and then removed.