Tatyana Lazareva

Affiliated media: TV presenter

Incident date: July 10, 2024

Attack type:

• Prosecution for extremism, links with terrorists, inciting hatred, high treason, calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order, rehabilitation of Nazism (2)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Radio Svoboda

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow has ordered the arrest in absentia of TV presenter Tatyana Lazareva. A case of justification of terrorism was brought against her. The criminal case against Lazareva became known on June 17. The reason for it was her interview, in which she spoke about drone attacks on Russian cities. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on the linguistic study of Lazareva’s words. The expert examination found in them «information aimed at justifying terrorist activity». State Duma deputy Andrey Alshevskikh demanded to check the words of the TV presenter. On June 13, it became known that the Ministry put Lazareva on a wanted list.