Affiliated media: REN TV , Camera crew

Incident date: December 7, 2020

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast, Kamenka

Additional information:

The camera crew was making a story about the schemes of illegal export of Siberian timber abroad, bypassing the federal timber accounting system LES EGAIS. The journalists pretended to be buyers and conducted a test purchase, gaining access to a new shady scheme for exporting round timber to other countries under the guise of finished furniture. As a result, the «owner» of the sawmill attacked the journalists and started throwing wooden sticks at them.