Vitaly Ruvinsky - Justice for Journalists

Vitaly Ruvinsky

Affiliated media: Echo of Moscow, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: November 27, 2021

Attack type:

  • Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Meduza

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Presnensky Court of Moscow fined Echo of Moscow RUB 160,000 for mentioning organisations and media outlets declared «foreign agents» on the radio station’s website without appropriate markings. Four reports were drawn up against the radio station under Parts 2.1 and 2.4 of Article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation. The editor in chief of the website of Echo of Moscow, Vitaly Ruvinsky, was also fined four more times under the same administrative articles.

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