Affiliated media: Novaya Gazeta, Newspaper

Incident date: August 3, 2020

Attack type:

• Attacks via judicial or economic means

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: MBK Media

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Administrative protocols on the dissemination of fakes were drawn up against Novaya Gazeta and its editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov. According to the Unified portal of magistrates of Moscow (mos-sud.ru) there are four protocols: two of which were drawn up for the Novaya Gazeta and two for Muratov. The reasons were articles about COVID-19 in one of the military units and in the Chechen Republic.