“No advertisers, no money, but millions of readers”: Meduza’s Galina Timchenko on the impact of new ‘foreign agent status
Cenzolovka 28.05.2021
New rules part of effort to undermine independent Russian media
On April 23, the Latvia-based Russian news site Meduza was declared a foreign agent by the Russian ministry of justice, together with the news outlet PASMI. The impact was immediate, Galina Timchenko, Meduza’s founder and CEO, said at an online briefing organized by Vienna’s fjum (forum journalismus und medien), the International Press Institute’s (IPI) and Presseclub Concordia May 26. In less than a week following the announcement, Meduza already lost 90 precent
