Lenta.ru - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Lenta.ru, News website

Incident date: July 3, 2020

Attack type:

community service, ban on certain activities and other punishment following a criminal case

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

According to the decision of the Simonovsky District Court, the news website must refute the article «Myths of the Ministry of Culture», published in November 2019, and pay the presidential assistant and former Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky RUB 500,000 as compensation for moral damage.

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