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The Insider editor-in-chief arrested in absentia in illegal border crossing case

The Moscow Lefortovsky District Court has issued an arrest warrant in absentia for editor-in-chief of The Insider (recognized in Russia as a media performing functions of a foreign agent and an undesirable organization) Roman Dobrokhotov (recognized as a foreign media agent in Russia) in a case over illegal crossing of the state border.

12:22 05.08.2022

Russian President Putin signs law on retaliatory blocking of foreign media in Russia

President of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed a bill empowering Prosecutor General and his deputies to prohibit foreign mass media in Russia in response to unfriendly actions by foreign states regarding Russian media working abroad into law.

17:38 15.07.2022

State Duma adopts bill on retaliatory blocking of foreign media in Russia

The State Duma on Thursday passed a bill empowering Prosecutor General and his deputies to ban foreign mass media in Russia in response to hostile actions by foreign states regarding Russian media working abroad.

14:15 30.06.2022

Journalist Yury Dud challenges foreign agent status

Journalist and blogger Yury Dud has filed an administrative lawsuit against Russia’s Justice Ministry challenging a mass media-foreign agent label.

16:19 07.06.2022

The Insider editor-in-chief ordered to pay over $2K to Dutch journalist for libel

Moscow’s Cheremushkinsky District Court on Wednesday ordered the editor-in-chief of The Insider (recognized in Russia as a media performing functions of a foreign agent) Roman Dobrokhotov to pay Dutch journalist Max van der Werff 156,000 rubles (over $2,000) upon the latter’s defamation lawsuit.

14:33 06.10.2021

Editor-in-chief of The Insider wanted as part of illegal border crossing case

Editor-in-chief of The Insider media (recognized in Russia as a media performing functions of a foreign agent) Roman Dobrokhotov has been put on a wanted list on the illegal border crossing charges.

12:57 30.09.2021

Lawmaker loses defamation dispute with Russian TV star

The Moscow City Court on Tuesday upheld dismissal of the Moscow City Duma Communist lawmaker Pavel Tarasov’s defamation lawsuit against famous Russian TV and radio host Vladimir Solovyev.

13:13 21.09.2021

Case over libel against Dutch journalist opened by Russian investigators

The Russian investigative authorities have opened a criminal case over the fact of defamation against Dutch journalist Max van der Werff on the part of The Insider (recognized in Russia as a media performing functions of a foreign agent).

13:03 28.07.2021

President Putin obliges media to indicate terrorist organizations banned in Russia

President of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed a law introducing administrative responsibility for disseminating information about terrorist organizations without indicating that those had been liquidated or activities thereof had been banned in Russia.

16:33 01.07.2021

State Duma passes bill obliging media to indicate terrorist organizations banned in Russia

The State Duma has passed in the third and final reading a bill introducing administrative responsibility for disseminating information about terrorist organizations without indicating that those had been liquidated or activities thereof had been banned in Russia.

16:13 17.06.2021

Foreign agent label of Meduza media outlet upheld

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court in Moscow on Friday upheld the Russian Justice Ministry’s decision to include Meduza registered in Latvia in the list of media acting as foreign agents.

11:03 04.06.2021

Russian Supreme Court upholds Ukrainian ex-minister’s sentence for terrorist calls

The Military Collegium of the Russian Supreme Court on Friday upheld sentence passed on ex-defense minister of Ukraine Anatoly Gritsenko for calls through media to blast Russian trains and cars in absentia.

17:36 21.05.2021

Vtimes media enters in foreign agents list – Russian Justice Ministry

The Justice Ministry of Russia on Friday placed Vtimes media outlet on the register of mass media acting as foreign agents.

13:24 14.05.2021

Meduza media outlet declared foreign agent

The Justice Ministry added Meduza to the list of media acting as foreign agents, the Ministry’s press service reports Friday.

14:55 23.04.2021

Russian Justice Ministry’s decision to add journalist to foreign agents list suspended

Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court on Wednesday suspended the Justice Ministry’s decision to declare journalist of 7x7 media outlet Sergey Markelov a foreign agent.

12:23 24.03.2021

Putin sets fines for distribution of information on foreign agents without marking

President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill on fines for distribution of information on individual foreign agents without appropriate marking into law.

11:10 24.02.2021

Journalist fined for participation in unauthorized rally

Moscow’s Golovinsky District Court on Wednesday fined journalist for the Open Media Dmitry Nikitin 10,000 rubles ($130) for his participation in one of the recent illegal walkouts.

17:32 03.02.2021

Russia’s Government approves rules governing support of socially important e-media

Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin has signed a resolution establishing the rules governing provision of support to socially important online media outlets and the development of websites being of social or educational significance.

13:17 03.02.2021

President signs bill on sanctions for censorship of Russian media outlets into law

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill envisaging restriction of access to Internet resources censoring Russian media outlets into law.

15:33 30.12.2020

Businessman Kerimov’s defamation suit against media granted

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Friday granted a defamation claim of businessman Suleyman Kerimov against Forbes magazine, newspapers Vedomosti and Sobesednik and Facebook used Narine Davydova.

13:59 20.11.2020