Echo of Moscow - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Echo of Moscow, Editorial office

Incident date: December 24, 2021

Attack type:

  • Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg

Location: Russia, Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg

Additional information:

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg recovered RUB 1 million from Echo of Moscow and RUB 100,000 from publicist Viktor Shenderovich under a civil suit filed by Yevgeny Prigozhin and ordered the defendants to refute the information. The court also set a court penalty for non-execution of the judicial act in the amount of RUB 1,000 per day. Shenderovich called «Putin’s cook» a criminal.

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