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

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:March 5, 2022
Post category:Freedom of Expression Freedom of Information Journalists Leonid Nikitinsky Novaya gazeta Putin Putinism Ukraine War
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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…

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

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 14, 2020
Post category:Committee to Protect Journalists Freedom of Expression Journalists Legal Case of the Week
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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…

Podcast Simon & Sergei: with Tatyana Voltskaya, journalist and poet

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:July 6, 2020
Post category:Journalists Podcasts Tatyana Voltskaya Tatyana Voltskaya Podcast
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This week our guest on the podcast is Tatyana Voltskaya, journalist and poet from St Petersburg, against whom a criminal case was opened in April for so-called "fake news". Among…