Georgy Govorov

Affiliated media: Nasha Gazeta, Journalist

Incident date: March 2, 2023

Attack type:

• Warnings, pre-trial complaints, questioning and other extra-judicial actions

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Kostanay Province, Kostanay

Additional information:

A district police inspector of Kostanay came to the editorial office of Nasha Gazeta to question the correspondent Georgy Govorov about his article «Kostanay college teacher accuses director of fraud», published on the media outlet’s website on January 27. It turned out that the director of the Kostanay college of household service Aigul Nurkina filed a complaint with the police, accusing the teacher of the college Yekaterina Komissarova of libel because of her statements in the above-mentioned article. Govorov explained that he had several times offered Nurkina to comment on the situation, but she refused to do so and kept asking not to publish the article.