Maria Kustova

Affiliated media: Gazeta.SPb , Editor-in-chief

Incident date: June 8, 2021

Attack type:

• Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Monitoring of new Russian laws and their enforcement in the field of civil rights

Location: Russia, Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg

Additional information:

The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined the editor-in-chief of Gazeta.SPb Maria Kustova RUB 4,000 because the media outlet's article mentioned the Alliance of Doctors without marking it as a foreign agent. Kustova was fined under Part 2.1 of Article 13.15 of Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (dissemination in mass media of information about a non-profit organisation included in the register of non-profit organisations performing the functions of a foreign agent).