Svetlana Makhohei

Affiliated media: YouTube channel "Navalny LIVE" , Ex-presenter

Incident date: June 18, 2021

Attack type:

• Pressure on a media worker via judicial and/or economic pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Sever. Realii

Location: Russia, Republic of Karelia, Republic of Karelia

Additional information:

In the Republic of Karelia, police officers visited relatives of the former presenter of the YouTube channel "Navalny LIVE" Svetlana Makhohei. The journalist left Russia over a year ago and now lives in Europe. She informed the Sever. Realii correspondent the day before she was contacted by her aunt, who was called to the Ministry of Internal Affairs department. The authorities demanded Svetlana's mother's phone numbers and address and sought to find out where Svetlana now lives.