Censorship and regulation: Publication ban, take-down order or forced deletion, fine, administrative action
Printing houses in the Altai region in Southern Siberia refused to print the newspaper “Listok” for the first time since it was founded after they received a warning from a prosecutor’s office not to facilitate the dissemination of “false information” about the war in Ukraine. Listok had been regularly publishing news about the war. On April 14, the publisher of Listok, Sergei Mikhailov, was taken into custody on charges of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army. Its director was also fined 300 and 100 thousand rubles earlier in April for discrediting the army.