Sergey Podsytnik - Justice for Journalists

Sergey Podsytnik

Affiliated media: Protokol Samara, Editor

Incident date: March 27, 2023

Attack type:

  • Warnings, pre-trial complaints, questioning and other extra-judicial actions

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Telegram channel 7х7

Location: Russia, Samara Oblast, Samara

Additional information:

Law enforcers came to the flat of the editor of the media outlet Protokol Samara Sergey Podsytnik. They handed the journalist’s neighbours a summons for questioning. The police explained that their interest was related to «Navalny and YouTube». In the channel Protokol Samara, Podsytnik published the list of dead Samara mobilised soldiers during the strike on the building of college in Makiivka on January 1, 2023. Together with his team, he investigated the earnings and assets of the governor of the Samara Region Dmitry Azarov and the mayor of Tolyatti Nikolay Renets. The journalist left Russia.

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