Giorgi Chentemirov

Affiliated media: Respublika, Chief Editor

Incident date: May 31, 2017

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Glasnost Defence Foundation

Location: Russia, Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk

Additional information:

The editor-in-chief of the online magazine "Respublika" was fired at the request of Karelia’s military commissioner: he did not like a headline in their news. In June 2017, he was reinstated after complaints by editorial staff to the acting governor Artur Parfenchikov.