Affiliated media: Readovka, News website

Incident date: February 26, 2022

Attack type:

• Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Roskomnadzor blocked the Readovka website on the demand of the Prosecutor General's Office. The reason for adding the website to the registry of banned websites was a post in the media's Telegram channel, in which they claimed that «Roskomnadzor decided to block Telegram in Russia because of Readovka's post about the lawlessness of migrants in the Kaluga region». Earlier, the channel had a post with information that in Obninsk school №6, a gang of migrants with knives terrorized teachers and students», and the agency considered the phrase as extremism. The editorial board noted that they had received a notification from Roskomnadzor the day before and removed the publication.