Mikhail Rubin

Affiliated media: Proekt (The Project) , Deputy Chief Editor

Incident date: June 29, 2021

Attack type:

• Search with a court decree

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Reuters

Location: Russia, Moscow

Additional information:

The apartments of Mikhail Rubin, the editor-in-chief of Proekt (The Project) news website Roman Badanin, and the journalist of the same media outlet Maria Zholobova were raided. Formally, the searches were conducted as part of the libel case initiated in 2017. The editorial team of Proekt (The Project) associates the searches with the investigation into the Ministry of Internal Affairs head, Vladimir Kolokoltsev.