The Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow fined Meduza journalist Dmitry Kuznets ten thousand rubles. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court.
Kuznets was found guilty of participating in the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). According to the text of the resolution, the reason was his participation in the daily podcast “What Happened?”, in an episode dated February 2024.
The Prosecutor General’s Office recognized Meduza as an “undesirable organization” in January 2023, later the legal entity of the publication was Limited liability company (SIA) «Medusa Project», registered in Latvia, was included in the relevant register of the Ministry of Justice.
Readers began to be fined for reposting “undesirable” independent media. Most of the protocols are for Meduza
In April, the court of annexed Sevastopol also received materials from an administrative case under the same article against journalist Anastasia Zhvik, who left Russia. According to Mediazona, the protocol was drawn up after the publication of Zhvik’s texts on Meduza.
In the same month, a court in St. Petersburg fined Alexey Nazarov (probably the media coordinator of the Alliance of Heterosexuals and LGBT for Equality) five thousand rubles due to a link to an article by Meduza on VKontakte. . In April, the editor-in-chief of “Important Stories” Roman Anin and activist Ruslan Gabbasov were fined for the same administrative cases.