Censorship and regulation: Publication ban, take-down order or forced deletion, fine, administrative action
Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta was forced to delete an article written well-known journalist Elena Milashina that criticized the measures being taken in the Russian republic of Chechnya to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and questioned the preparedness of the republic’s hospitals. The order came from the country’s media regulator Roskomnadzor and followed a series of violent threats made against the journalist by the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.