Pavel Kanygin

Affiliated media: Novaya Gazeta, Journalist

Incident date: July 9, 2019

Attack type:

• Defamation, spreading libel about a media worker or media outlet

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Lenta.ru

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Novaya Gazeta Sergei Sokolov said that Vladimir Solovyov and Sergei Mikheev, the presenters of the programme “Kto protiv?” on Russia-1, knowingly lied about Pavel Kanygin, a special correspondent for the paper.