Affiliated media: Tagilka, Newspaper

Incident date: October 3, 2022

Attack type:

• Forced cessation of journalistic activity/ closure of media outlet due to the state of war and/or military censorship

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Alexander Solovyov's VKontakte page

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Nizhny Tagil

Additional information:

RadioVeshschatelnaya Kompaniya LLC decided to shut down several media projects in Nizhny Tagil. The broadcasting of the Realny Tagil TV channel and information broadcasting on radio stations have been stopped. The company's director, Alexander Solovyov, explained the media shutdown as the impossibility «to pursue the information policy which has been followed all these years» in the current political situation.