Vladimir Komarov

Affiliated media: Newspaper «Workers and peasants' sickle and hammer», Editor-in-chief

Incident date: August 2, 2022

Attack type:

• Search with a court decree

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Prospekt Mira

Location: Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Krasnoyarsk

Additional information:

Federal Security Service officers searched the apartments of Communist activists Yekaterina Fatyanova and Vladimir Komarov, who edit the newspaper «Workers and peasants' sickle and hammer». As Fatyanova wrote on social networks, three FSS officers with two witnesses came to her apartment for a search at 07:30 AM on July 28. According to the activist, she is suspected of spreading fakes through the newspaper about communism «Workers and peasants' sickle and hammer», the editor of which she is. According to Fatyanova’s posts on social networks, it is not quite clear whether she is talking about «military fakes» or «discrediting the army». During the search, her phone, two SIM cards, and an issue of the newspaper were confiscated. On the same day, the search was also conducted in the home of 76-year-old Komarov.