Sergei Elkin - Justice for Journalists

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Sergei Elkin

Affiliated media: Radio Svoboda, The Insider, Political cartoonist

Incident date: April 15, 2022

Attack type:

  • Labelling media/individuals as foreign agents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: The Moscow Times

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation included Sergei Elkin in the «foreign agents» registry. Along with him, seven other people were declared «foreign agents», including the editor-in-chief of The Insider Roman Dobrohotov, journalists Karen Shahinyan, Yury Dud, Alexey Semyonov, and political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann.