Affiliated media: Svoi.city, Online news outlet
Incident date: March 17, 2022
Attack type:
- Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: Institute of Mass Information
Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow
Additional information:
Roskomnadzor has blocked the website of the Ukrainian online news outlet Svoi.city, which tells about the life of people in eastern Ukraine on both sides of the front line, the life of displaced people, Ukrainian refugees abroad, and on the territory of the Russian Federation. The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation decided to block it on February 24, 2022, the day of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, but the blocking took place on March 17.