Ivan Zhadaev - Justice for Journalists

Ivan Zhadaev

Affiliated media: MBKh Media, Former editor

Incident date: October 14, 2022

Attack type:

  • Labelling media/individuals as foreign agents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Ivan Zhadaev, the former editor of MBKh Media, was declared a «foreign agent». Former TV Rain correspondent Natalia Telegina, film critic Anton Dolin, former editor-in-chief of MBKh Media Veronica Kutsyllo, editor of VPost Kirill Kharatyan, and journalist Vladimir Ruvinsky were also declared «foreign agents». The Ministry of Justice recognized three more people as «foreign agents physical entities».

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