Kirill Kharatyan - Justice for Journalists

Kirill Kharatyan

Affiliated media: VPost, 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:

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

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