Veronika Ilyina

Affiliated media: Znamya, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: April 27, 2018

Attack type:

• Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Uray

Additional information:

Veronika Ilyina, editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Znamya”, addressed the Glasnost Defense Foundation. She stated that in addition to a criminal case against her under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Fraud"), another one was initiated under Article 160 of the Code ("Appropriation or embezzlement").