Alexander Pichugin

Affiliated media: Telegram channel "Sorokin hvost", "Reporter-NN", Journalist, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: July 2, 2020

Attack type:

• Attacks via judicial or economic means

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Media Rights Defence Centre

Location: Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Bogorodsk

Additional information:

The Bogorodsk City Court has started the criminal proceeding against Pichugin. He is accused of dissemination of false information for a post criticising the Russian Orthodox Church. Pichugin called the services on Palm Sunday "a planned action to infect with a deadly decease."