Kirill Rubankov - Justice for Journalists

Kirill Rubankov

Affiliated media: Kostroma.today, Founder

Incident date: May 27, 2021

Attack type:

  • Court trial

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Mass Media Defence Centre

Location: Russia, Kostroma Oblast, Kostroma

Additional information:

The Arbitration Court of the Kostroma Region started to consider the lawsuit of the Kostroma meat processing plant to protect its business reputation against the founder of the KOSTROMA.TODAY online media Kirill Rubankov. The company was not satisfied with the news headline «Kostroma meat processing plant was fined for soy in sausage», even though the article was referring to another meat processing plant.

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