Vitaly Khanin

Affiliated media: Izvestia, Correspondent

Incident date: June 5, 2020

Attack type:

• Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Izvestia

Location: Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Norilsk

Additional information:

Employees of Nornickel's subsidiary NTEK JSC prevented filming a report about an oil spill to the Ambarnaya river: they took away and hid the tripod and tried to slow down the cameraman and reporter. The report aired on the REN TV channel. After that, the Investigative Committee initiated an investigation under the article on obstruction of journalists' work.