Elena Milashina

Affiliated media: "Novaya Gazeta", Journalist

Incident date: April 13, 2020

Attack type:

• Non-physical and/or cyber-attacks and threats

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: "Novaya Gazeta"

Location: Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny

Additional information:

Journalists of "Novaya Gazeta" received new threats from Ramzan Kadyrov, the Head of the Chechen Republic, after an article by Elena Milashina on the coronavirus situation in the Republic. Kadyrov called on the FSB to "stop these non-humans who write and provoke my people." Earlier, "Novaya Gazeta" proposed to publish the response of the Chechen leadership to an article by Milashina.