Leonid Nikitinsky: 15 years. That’s what’s “fake” [1/2]

3 March 2022 by Leonid Nikitinsky, Novaya gazeta correspondent  Source: Novaya gazeta Let me explain Article 207.3 of th Russian Criminal Code, which will appear any day now and will…

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Legal Case of the Week: Nizhny Novgorod journalist Aleksandr Pichugin fined under the ‘fake news’ law

Week-ending 13 November 2020 Photo of journalist Aleksandr Pichugin. (Photo: Roman Golotvin via Committee to Protect Journalists) On 11 November 2020 Nizhny Novgorod journalist Aleksandr Pichugin, administrator of the Telegram…

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