Svoboda Quotes - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Svoboda Quotes, Radio Svoboda podcast

Incident date: October 5, 2022

Attack type:

request to remove or block the article and/or refutation

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Yandex Music removed Radio Svoboda’s podcast Svoboda Quotes, in which journalist Alya Ponomaryova talks twice a week about major news stories and reactions to them in social networks. The service referred to Roskomnadzor notification about the distribution of «information prohibited by law». On October 4, the General Prosecutor’s Office issued a demand to block it.

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