Maria Ponomarenko - Justice for Journalists

Help Ukrainian Media:

Gofundme campaing (by Jakub Parusinski) or 2402.org (by Zaborona Media) or IFJ/EFJ Safety Fund

Maria Ponomarenko

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: October 11, 2020

Attack type:

  • Fines and other restrictions following administrative offences

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: MBK Media

Location: Russia, Altai krai, Barnaul

Additional information:

Zheleznodorozhny District Court fined blogger Maria Ponomarenko RUB 50,000 under Part 3 of Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation for insulting Vladimir Putin. The reason was the video published in TikTok, entitled «Putin to resign! Khabarovsk, I'm with you».