Zinaida Makarova

Affiliated media: Uglegorsk News weekly newspaper , Editor-in-chief

Incident date: July 14, 2021

Attack type:

• Dismissal / involuntary dismissal / forced quitting of the profession / expulsion from the educational institution

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Sakhalin Oblast, Uglegorsk

Additional information:

Сity authorities fired Makarova and disrupted the next issue of the Uglegorsk News weekly newspaper. Officials from the city administration came to the editorial office, and the power was cut off in the building and the printing office. Makarova associates her dismissal with critical publications about the Eastmining Company.