Journalism

Unknown attackers in Chechnya attacked lawyer Alexander Nemov and a journalist of Novaya Gazeta* Elena Milashina: the last one was shaved bald and her fingers were broken.

Businessman Alexander Mamut, former co-owner of Rambler and owner of Gazeta publications.ru and Lenta.ru, previously left the country and now plans to create a new, liberal publication abroad.

Telegram channel Shot published an exclusive photo of a statuette with disguised explosives, which Daria Trepova presented to war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky (pictured).

A 64-year-old editor of a regional newspaper was detained and arrested in Belarus. He is accused of spreading "deliberately false information that discredits the country" in the newspaper and on the website.

The Lefortovo court of Moscow granted the request of the investigation to arrest the employee of The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) American Evan Gershkovich (pictured) on charges of espionage. He was sent into custody for two months.

42% of Russians said they spend more than an hour a day reading the news. Another 30% noted that it takes them from 30 minutes to an hour to get acquainted with the news and be aware of what is happening.

Dmitry Semchenko, the former head of the presidential media pool in Belarus, was sentenced to three years in prison for posts on social networks criticizing the harsh actions of the security forces to disperse the protesters.

The Moscow City Court sentenced political scientist Demuri Voronin, who was involved in one of the episodes of the case of journalist Ivan Safronov, to 13 years and three months in a strict regime colony.

Ex-advisor to the General Director of Roscosmos, former special correspondent of Kommersant and Vedomosti Ivan Safronov will serve his sentence in the case of treason in Сorrectional facility-7, located in the village of Areyskoye in the Yemelyanovsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

The Moscow City Court at a meeting on February 7 recognized as lawful the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, which decided to revoke the license of Novaya Rasskaz-Gazeta (can be translated as the "New Narration Newspaper" - editor's note) and revoked the license of Novaya Gazeta.

During the judicial debate, the state prosecution appealed to the Basmanny Court of Moscow with a request to recognize journalist Alexander Nevzorov * guilty of spreading fakes about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and sentence him in absentia to 9 years in a penal colony.

He is wanted under a criminal article.

Police officers began checking against journalist Leonid Parfenov, who did not notify the relevant authorities about his obtaining Israeli citizenship.