Affiliated media: Echo, Online media

Incident date: October 6, 2022

Attack type:

• Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Echo

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Russian authorities started to block the website of the Echo project, created by former journalists of Echo of Moscow. The blocking was initiated by the General Prosecutor's Office, citing Article 15.3 of the Law on Information (the procedure for restricting access to information disseminated in violation of the law).