Olga Shushlebina

Affiliated media: Uryupinskaya Pravda, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: December 27, 2019

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Volgograd Oblast, Uryupinsk

Additional information:

In Uryupinsk (Volgograd Oblast), the head of the local administration Horoshenkov fired the editor-in-chief of "Uryupinskaya Pravda" Olga Shushlebina for posting a photo of a federal politician below the photo of a regional MP. This "gross political mistake" was the reason provided by the dismissal.