Important Stories - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Important Stories, Online media outlet

Incident date: August 20, 2021

Attack type:

  • request to remove or block the article and/or refutation

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Radio Svoboda

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Ostankinsky District Court of Moscow fully satisfied the lawsuit filed by dancer Aya Belova against Important Stories, the editor of the newspaper's investigations department Roman Shleynov, and TV Rain. The court ordered Important Stories to delete an investigation about Rosneft's purchase of shares in the Italian company Pirelli (it was alleged that Belova was involved in this scheme) and to publish a refutation.

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