SeverPost - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: SeverPost , Publication

Incident date: January 21, 2020

Attack type:

  • Defamation, spreading libel about a media worker or media outlet

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: VK (comment of Olga Popova)

Location: Russia, Murmansk Oblast, Murmansk

Additional information:

Olga Popova, press secretary of the Murmansk Shipyard №10 (owned by the United Shipbuilding Corporation), called journalists of the local media SeverPost «American bastards». On her Facebook page, Popova wrote: «What are you doing, you AMERICAN BASTARDS? DO YOU EVEN KNOW THE REASON WHY? No, why write that the money did not come from Zvyozdochka. Why would anyone want the truth?!!!! You grabbed some hot news and went ahead to raise the rating of your „info garbage“. Our „Western“ friends love sponsoring such fighters of „democracy“ and freedom of speech».

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