Aleksei Yakovlev

Affiliated media: REGNUM News Agency, Editor

Incident date: August 10, 2017

Attack type:

• Dismissal / involuntary dismissal / forced quitting of the profession / expulsion from the educational institution

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defence Foundation

Location: Russia, Yaroslavl Oblast, Yaroslavl

Additional information:

The Glasnost Defence Foundation received information about the dismissal in May 2017 of the editor-in-chief of the Yaroslavl branch of the news agency REGNUM, Aleksei Yakovlev. He was fired after a series of critical articles concerning acting Oblast governor Dmitry Mironov.