RFE/RL's Echo of the Caucasus - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: RFE/RL's Echo of the Caucasus , News outlet

Incident date: March 6, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Chelyabinsk

Additional information:

Roskomnadzor has blocked the websites of Snob, Sobesednik, Agenstvo, Echo of Moscow in Chelyabinsk, and Radio Svoboda's Echo of Caucasus project. Updates to the register of banned resources are being published by RoskomSvoboda. Activatica, the media about civic activists, and SlavicSac, the news website for the Russian diaspora in California, were also added to the register.

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