Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow appointed Lilia Yapparova to the special correspondent of Medusa an administrative fine on the protocol on the participation in the activities of an “unwanted” organization (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The amount of the fine is 15 thousand rubles, writes Mediazona with reference to the press service of the Moscow courts. The decision was made on April 1, but when trying to download its base of the Moscow courts, it issues an error, therefore, it is impossible to say that it became the reason for drawing up an administrative protocol on a journalist. The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office declared an “unwanted” organization in January 2023. 2024.v 2024.V. 2024. For a year, Russian courts made 45 decisions on fines for administrative protocols for cooperation with an “unwanted” organization related to Medusa. In March 2025, the Medusa photo editor Evgeny Feldman was fined 5,000 rubles on the protocol on participation in an “unwanted” organization. The fines of participation in the “unwanted” organization were also appointed to the Medusa journalists, including Andrei Peretsev, Elizabeth Antonova, Svetlana Reuters, Anton Khitrov and others. (Tagstotranslate) News
