Affiliated media: Novaya Gazeta , Newspaper, Online publication

Incident date: February 16, 2021

Attack type:

• Prosecution for dissemination of false information and fakes (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Novaya Gazeta

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, initiated administrative cases on the spread of false information (part 9 of Article 13.15 of the Administrative Code) against Novaya Gazeta and its editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov. The article about students who were offered money to provoke conflicts during rallies in support of Alexei Navalny was deleted at the request of the Roskomnadzor.