Mediazona

Mediazona
Type of site
News website
Available inRussian, English
Country of originRussia
Founders
EditorSergey Smirnov (editor-in-chief)
Key peoplePyotr Verzilov (former publisher)
URLzona.media
CommercialNo
RegistrationNone
LaunchedSeptember 4, 2014 (2014-09-04)
Current statusActive
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Mediazona (Russian: Медиазона) is a Russian independent media outlet which focuses on the law enforcement, judiciary and the penitentiary system in Russia. It was launched by Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova in 2014, after they served their sentence following the Pussy Riot trial. The outlet's editor-in-chief is Russian political journalist Sergey Smirnov.

Mediazona has been named the most cited independent Russian media outlet.