The Economist has a Russian language TV station.
Here is the list of censorship cases that The Economist has come under. Russia isn't on it.
Sections of
The Economist criticising authoritarian regimes are frequently removed from the paper by the authorities in those countries.
The Economist regularly has difficulties with the ruling party of Singapore, the
People's Action Party, which had successfully sued it, in a Singaporean court, for
libel.
[146]
Like many other publications,
The Economist is subjected to censorship in
India whenever it depicts a map of
Kashmir. The maps are stamped by Indian customs officials as being "neither correct, nor authentic". Issues are sometimes delayed, but not stopped or seized.
[147] On 15 June 2006,
Iran banned the sale of
The Economist when it published a map labelling the
Persian Gulf simply as Gulf—a choice that derives its political significance from the
Persian Gulf naming dispute.
[148]
In a separate incident, the government of
Zimbabwe went further and imprisoned
The Economist's correspondent there,
Andrew Meldrum. The government charged him with violating a statute on "publishing untruth" for writing that a woman was decapitated by supporters of the ruling
Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front party. The
decapitation claim was retracted
[149] and allegedly fabricated by the woman's husband. The correspondent was later acquitted, only to receive a
deportation order.
On 19 August 2013,
The Economist disclosed that the Missouri Department of Corrections had censored its issue of 29 June 2013. According to the letter sent by the department, prisoners were not allowed to receive the issue because "1. it constitutes a threat to the security or discipline of the institution; 2. may facilitate or encourage criminal activity; or 3. may interfere with the rehabilitation of an offender"