TV Rain - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: TV Rain, TV channel

Incident date: May 21, 2021

Attack type:

Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Moscow Arbitration Court has satisfied a claim for protection of Rosneft's business reputation against TV Rain. The channel must remove a sentence about the oil company in one of its news items and publish a retraction.

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