Karen Shainyan

Affiliated media: YouTube project «Straight Talk With Gay People», Project Head, Host

Incident date: August 24, 2022

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Pavel Chikov's Telegram channel

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow fined journalist Karen Shainyan RUB 10,000 under an article on violation of the procedure for the activities of a «media foreign agent». The report was drawn up due to the absence of the «foreign agent» marking in Shainyan’s publications. Shainyan was included in the register of «foreign agents» in April.