Meduza special correspondent Lilia Yapparova has been charged with illegal participation in an “undesirable” organization. On Thursday, the news outlet Mediazona [reported](https://t.me/mediazona_exclusive/3003) the misdemeanor case against Yapparova. The materials submitted to Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court do not specify what prompted the charges. Russia’s Prosecutor General outlawed Meduza as an “undesirable” organization in January 2023.
Another Moscow court filed separate “undesirable” participation charges against Russian nuclear policy expert [Maksim Starchak](https://mos-gorsud.ru/rs/nagatinskij/services/cases/admin/details/292eb280-ffe3-11ef-9b9e-fb09ffc9ecfd), who’s previously granted interviews to Meduza and other banned news outlets, including iStories, Riddle, and The Insider.
In 2024, Russian courts issued a total of 81 administrative fines to journalists and readers of independent media deemed “undesirable” by Russian authorities, Mediazona estimates. Meduza accounted for the largest number of these cases (45 fines), followed by Radio Liberty (12 protocols) and Dozhd (nine protocols). These fines typically target journalists or experts who were in some way involved in the creation of media materials. Those penalized include Meduza journalists Andrey Pertsev, Elizaveta Antonova, Svetlana Reiter, Anton Khitrov, and others.