Yevgenia Albats - Justice for Journalists

Yevgenia Albats

Affiliated media: The New Times, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: September 6, 2022

Attack type:

  • Forced emigration as a result of legal / economic pressure

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Lenizdat.ru

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Yevgenia Albats, the editor-in-chief of The New Times, left Russia and will be teaching at a university in New York. The journalist noted that four administrative cases were opened against her and she was declared a foreign agent. According to her, she had "three or four weeks until the arrest".

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