Ivan Yakovina - Justice for Journalists

Ivan Yakovina

Affiliated media: NV, Journalist (Ukraine)

Incident date: October 28, 2022

Attack type:

  • Labelling media/individuals as foreign agents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation declared the company owner of Bookmate, general director of the book service Andrey Bayev, and head of the service’s marketing department and director of Individuum and Popcorn books publishing houses Alexey Dokuchaev «foreign agents». TV Rain’s CEO Natalia Sindeyeva, TV channel hosts Yekaterina Kotrikadze and Vladimir Romensky, lawyer Mikhail Benyash, Ukrainian political analyst Taras Berezovets, and Ukrainian journalist Ivan Yakovina were included in the registry of «foreign agents» physical entities.

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