Kommersant - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Kommersant, Social and political newspaper, Online media outlet

Incident date: December 28, 2021

Attack type:

  • request to remove or block the article and/or refutation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Kommersant

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

At the demand of Roskomnadzor, the editorial board removed from the website the news item «Marat Khusnullin’s family has assets worth RUB 3.2 billion», written on March 4, 2020, based on a story by Open Media. Roskomnadzor referred to the requirement of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation of August 3 to «restrict access to information resources containing information distributed in violation of the law.» Earlier, Open Media ceased to exist due to the recognition of its founder as an «undesirable» organisation.

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