Affiliated media: Vademecum, Editorial

Incident date: April 28, 2020

Attack type:

• Attacks via judicial or economic means

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Vademecum

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Russia’s media and telecommunications agency, at the request of the Prosecutor-General, blocked an article titled “Moscow’s compulsory medical insurance fund has refused to pay for treatment of COVID-19 patients that weren’t hospitalised by an ambulance”. The material was brought under a fake news law’s blacklist. As a result, the entire website of the publications was blocked, and the article deleted. The editorial board decried the blocking as a clear breach of media law.