Irek Bikkinin

Affiliated media: Tatarskaya Gazeta, Former editor-in-chief

Incident date: November 18, 2022

Attack type:

• Labelling media/individuals as foreign agents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Website of the Ministry of Justice of Russian Federation

Location: Russia, Republic of Mordovia, Aksenovo

Additional information:

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation included nine people in the «foreign agents» registry. In particular, founder of Conflict Intelligence Team Ruslan Leviev, editor of Novaya Gazeta and co-founder of Dissernet Andrey Zayakin, journalist and host of the «A pogovorit» video channel Irina Shikhman, and political video blogger Mikhail Svetov were included in the «foreign agents» register. Editor-in-chief of closed Tatarskaya Gazeta Irek Bikkinin and editor-in-chief of Republic Dmitry Kolezev were included in the register of «media foreign agents».