Affiliated media: Echo of Moscow in Pskov, Editorial Office
Incident date: February 6, 2019
Attack type:
- Search with a court decree
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: Council of Europe
Location: Russia, Pskov Oblast, Pskov
Additional information:
On February 6, 2019, the Investigative Committee of Pskov Oblast opened a criminal case against Svetlana Prokopieva, after she wrote a column on the "Pskov News Feed" website, which was also read on air on “Echo of Moscow in Pskov”. The column discussed the reason for 17-year-old Mikhail Zhlobitsky blowing himself up in an FSB building in Arkhangelsk region on October 31, 2018. Prokopieva’s house, as well as the radio station’s offices, were searched, and her bank accounts suspended.