The Insider - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: The Insider, Investigative news outlet

Incident date: June 29, 2021

Attack type:

  • Prosecution for libel, insult, violation of privacy (1)

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Press service of the "Concord" company

Location: Russia, Moscow

Additional information:

Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin filed a lawsuit against The Insider media outlet, its editor-in-chief Roman Dobrokhotov and publicist Denis Bilunov. Prigozhin demands to delete the article about his assistant Konstantin Pikalov, who is managing his affairs in Africa. The plaintiff demands the payment of RUB 5,000,000 and the publication of refutations on the Twitter accounts of Dobrokhotov and Bilunov.

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