Ivan Kolpakov

Affiliated media: Meduza, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: March 27, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Roskomnadzor

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Roskomnadzor warned Mikhail Zygar and three of his colleagues who interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky «about the need to refuse to publish» the material. The General Prosecutor’s Office also issued a report on the check against the journalists. Together with Mikhail Zygar, the interview was taken by the former editor-in-chief of TV Rain Tikhon Dzyadko, the editor-in-chief of Meduza Ivan Kolpakov, and the columnist of Kommersant Vladimir Solovyov. The material was not published in Kommersant.