Aleksey Kruchinin

Affiliated media: Russian public broadcaster "Channel One", Journalist

Incident date: May 6, 2020

Attack type:

• Attacks via judicial or economic means

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: CPJ

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

Belarusian Foreign Ministry cancelled the accreditations for Aleksey Kruchinin and Sergey Panasyuk, journalists of the Russian public broadcaster Channel One. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Anatoliy Glaz said that decision was made because of the “disseminated information that did not correspond with the reality”. This happened after the release of the news story about the situation with coronavirus in Belarus.