Week-ending 1 May 2020
Russian journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva says charges against her are ‘an act of intimidation’
In February 2019, police in Pskov, in northwestern Russia, raided the home of journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva. Authorities launched an investigation against Prokopyeva, a stringer and freelance correspondent for the U.S. Congress-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Russian service and the liberal Ekho Moskvy radio station, over comments she made on a November 2018 Ekho Moskvy broadcast. CPI, 30 April 2020
