Farida Kurbangaleeva

Affiliated media: Youtube channel 'Farida Kurbangaleeva',, journalist, television presenter

Incident date: June 28, 2024

Attack type:

Labelling media/individuals as foreign agents

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Russia, Moscow, Москва

Additional information:

The Russian Ministry of Justice has added journalist Farida Kurbangaleeva to the “foreign agents” register. On June 19, she was added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of "extremists and terrorists". A week later, she was arrested in absentia for exhibiting terrorist sympathies online.

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