Maria Ponomarenko

Affiliated media: RusNews, Journalist, Activist

Incident date: April 27, 2022

Attack type:

• Pressure on a media worker via judicial and/or economic pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Siberia.Realities

Location: Russia, Altai krai, Barnaul

Additional information:

Ponomarenko's underage children were questioned as part of a criminal case brought against her under the article about fakes about the Russian army motivated by political hatred. Ponomarenko was detained and then arrested in St. Petersburg. At the court hearing, it became known that part of the testimony against the journalist was given by her daughter.