Maxim Dmitriev - Justice for Journalists

Maxim Dmitriev

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: March 15, 2021

Attack type:

  • Court trial

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Mass Media Defence Centre

Location: Russia, Kostroma Oblast, Kostroma

Additional information:

The Kostroma Regional Court received a lawsuit on the protection of image rights. The court obliged the blogger to remove the photo of the doctor Anna Degtyareva, published in the Emergency Kostroma public group on VKontakte social network, and pay the plaintiff a compensation of RUB 5,000 for violation of the image rights. In the post, Maxim Dmitriev described his negative medical experience with Degtyareva.

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