Mikhail Rubin

Affiliated media: Proekt (The Project) , Deputy editor

Incident date: July 29, 2021

Attack type:

• Forced emigration as a result of legal / economic pressure

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Editor-in-chief of Proekt (The Project) media, Roman Badanin, his deputy Mikhail Rubin, and several other journalists fled abroad under threat of criminal prosecution. The American organization that founded Proekt was designated as «undesirable», and the journalists were designated as «foreign agents».