Affiliated media: Meduza, Online news outlet

Incident date: April 24, 2025

Attack type:

• Defamation, spreading libel about a media worker or media outlet

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Russian Foreign Intelligence Service

Location: Russia, Moscow

Additional information:

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service stated that “newly emerged European warmongers are launching a campaign to undermine the peace efforts” of the US President Donald Trump. The agency accused the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the publications Meduza and Proekt Media as participants in this “campaign.” According to the Foreign Intelligence Service, British and French special services are “directing” the “fabrication of accusations against Trump's entourage of secret ties to Russian political and business circles."