Novaya Gazeta - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Novaya Gazeta, Newspaper, News website

Incident date: July 27, 2021

Attack type:

request to remove or block the article and/or refutation

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Moscow Arbitration Court declared defamatory the phrases from an article published by Leonid Gozman in Novaya Gazeta and ordered the media outlet to remove the material. The court also ordered Krasovsky to pay RUB 300,000 as compensation for moral damage.

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