Daria Cherkudinova

Affiliated media: Podcast New Motherhood, Co-author

Incident date: October 29, 2020

Attack type:

Interrogation

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Juvenile Affairs Inspectorate of the Tversky district of Moscow called Kremer and her colleague Darya Cherkudinov for deposition. The reason was the release of the podcast New Motherhood about the transgender transition. An unknown person wrote denunciation to the Children's Ombudsman regarding "the idea of giving up family and marriage in favour of pleasure and one-time sexual relations" in the podcast.

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