Natalia Yakovleva

Affiliated media: V Omske, Journalist

Incident date: March 18, 2018

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Omsk Oblast, Duvanovka

Additional information:

In the village of Duvanovka (Omsk Oblast), the head of the precinct’s election commission Yuri Borzilo did not let the journalists Natalia Yakovleva, from the newspaper "V Omske" (In Omsk), nor her colleague Irina Kraevskaya, from the newspaper “Chetverg” (Thursday), into a polling station. Later, when the journalists started interviewing people, Borzilo ran up and began to threaten them, saying "If you want to leave alive, put the camera away!". He then hit the journalist on the head.