Philologist Kobrinsky filed a statement of libel against a Republic journalist due to a text about accusations of harassment

St. Petersburg philologist Alexander Kobrinsky wrote a statement of slander against journalist Rimma Polyak because of a text about accusations of harassment. about this . spoke Polyak herself

Kobrinsky’s claims were caused by the text “The Kobrinsky Effect: the old Yabloko and the new ethics” published in June 2021. editor-in-chief Republic Dmitry Kolezev clarified that the journalist received a call from an investigator from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the North-Eastern Administrative District of Moscow. “So far, Rimma Polyak has only spoken with the investigator by phone; she will go to a face-to-face meeting with a lawyer,” he added.

On December 6, a court in St. Petersburg recovered 300 thousand rubles from Kholod journalist Sofia Volyanova because of a 2020 article in which several students anonymously spoke about harassment by a former teacher of the Herzen Kobrinsky Russian State Pedagogical University.