Affiliated media: Forbes, News website

Incident date: August 27, 2020

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Facebook page of Vladimir Motorin

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Forbes removed from its website the article about the admission to the Moscow State University state-funded basis program of the daughter of VEB.RF head and former First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov who did not receive enough points for admission. The Forbes website published another article – about Anastasia Shuvalova's admission to the faculty of psychology on a commercial basis. On the website of Moscow State University, her name was removed from the list of those enrolled on budget. According to Forbes editor-in-chief Vladimir Motorin, VEB.RF threatened the media with a lawsuit. «We were given a copy of the contract concluded between the university and the applicant, which bears the stamp of August 21. And on this basis, they demanded that the first publication be removed and that we publicly apologize to the heroine of the publication. Otherwise, they threatened to file a lawsuit».