Affiliated media: Kompromat, News website

Incident date: September 14, 2017

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Glasnost Defence Foundation

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The news site “Kompromat” was completely shut down. Previously, only individual links on the site were blocked for violating the law on personal data of people subject to posts and investigations by the journalists.